I've been using the Akismet plugin to sort out spam comments for over 2 years now and find it quite effective.
A commenter has been frequenting our site for months and posting comments regularly without incident... until a few weeks ago, all his comments get marked as "Awaiting Moderation" and need to be approved before they appear publicly. As far as I can tell, nothing has changed -- his email address is the same. He is not using any blacklisted words, yet ALL of his comments get marked for moderation.
Any idea what could cause this?
apljdi
Member
Posted 2 months ago #
Your commenter could have managed to on a spam blacklist somewhere. I can happen, even to good people. I know a publisher who periodically gets blacklisted. She sends and receives thousands of legitimate emails a month and once and awhile some of them snags on a filter somewhere-- usually a hotmail one. I'm not well versed in the intricacies of Akismet's spam filtering though. If you approve a comment, things don't improve?
apljdi,
when i approve a comment, things do not improve. still, his comments get marked for moderation no matter what.
is there some kind of "whitelist" plugin available?
krez