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At least Akimet thinks so.

Lately I noticed that my own comments reply are not appearing. I was pretty sure the comments were posted. After some test, it turned out that Akimet marked them as spam! It some became a pain to have to go into the admin after every reply to unspam my own comment.

One problem of living and accessing the Internet from China is that many spam filter consider my IP as a spam source. I had similar problem before commenting on Jeremy Zawodny’s blog.

Akismet do not reveal how spam are determined so it is not clear if Akismet use IP as one of the factor. I would hate to think that it was my email or URL and certainly the content of my comments does not read like spam.

After digging around it seem like there is an option in Options > Discussion, right at the bottom, there is a checkbox,

Blacklist comments from open and insecure proxies.

Backlist! Don’t get me started on why blacklist is a bad idea.

No luck after unchecking the option. My hope now is the false-positive feedback to Akismet really work.

[tag]spam, akismet[/tag]