Slipping Through Akismet

Lately I’ve been getting chunks of spam comments that are getting through my Akismet plugin and being posted. This not only annoys me, but it has exposed a little problem in the manual Akismet workflow. I can’t see any way to mark these comments as spam for the Akismet engine because they are considered valid, posted comments by Wordpress.

The comments look like this:

Author : wyydlekzto (IP: 211.46.221.34 , 211.46.221.34)
E-mail : kquze@rorhdpv.com
URI : http://hifue.info
Whois : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=211.46.221.34
Comment:
Thanks for this site!
<a href="http://hifue.info" rel="nofollow">hifue.info</a>

As you can see, Wordpress lovingly appends the rel=”nofollow” attribute to any links in comments to prevent those links from affecting Google PageRanks.

However, I still have to go in and manually delete these comments, knowing that by doing so I am adding nothing about these comments to the Akismet Mother Brain. Grr.

2 Responses to “Slipping Through Akismet”

  1. June 28th, 2007 | 11:33 pm

    It’s simply because your blog is still the first result in a Google search for “musepack blows”.

  2. June 29th, 2007 | 12:08 am

    You might consider a different plugin.

    In the codebase for dasBlog, we have the ability to send a comment as SPAM to AKISMET for use in feeding the Mother Brain.

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