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1. JasonGW
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I have 2 sites currently running wordpress, one of which has been up since *yesterday* (www.biggreengenie.com). I was puzzled when I saw that according to AKismet there are 25 HAM's and 4 SPAM's in my comments for this brand new site with exactly ONE post. Puzzled because...there are no comments. At all. Not one.

   So on a hunch I went over to my site that's been running WordPress for 2ish months, http://www.damnshortstories.com, and jumped into the Akismet interface. Holy Shit, I thought as I looked at the stats. According to Akismet, I have over 150 SPAM comments and--get this--1,076 HAM comments. The problem? I have maybe a dozen comments total.

   What the hell is going on? Anyone have a clue? BigGreenGenie is running WP 2.6.3, DSS is running 2.6.2. Is there something I need to fix?

   Thanks!

   Jason

2. Saurus
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   You don't need to have comments to have Akismet catch spam, afaik. That is how it works - captures those meeting your criteria before they get added. I don't allow comments on my blog and I still get crap caught by Akismet.

3. JasonGW
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   well that's all well and good, except for the 100+ HAM. HAM are "good" comments, and not SPAM, so if it were accurate, that would mean I have 1000+ legitimate comments...and I don't.

4. Saurus
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Maybe you should have just used the words "good comments" instead of an acronym that could be confused with "bad" comments then? I have never heard the term HAM used before.

5. JasonGW
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Well, actually...Akismet *itself* uses the term HAM, so that's why I used it :)

6. Saurus
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Not on my site it doesn't. There is nothing in the akismet plugin's options referring to HAM at all. I have no idea what it is doing on yours.

7. popwireless
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   This has happened on both om my blogs as well. Huge HAM counts with no comments.

8. mrmist
   Forum Janitor
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Do you have any other plugins running? I don't really understand how you would get artificial ham, so to speak.

   Could it relate to trackbacks?

9. popwireless
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Since January 13 my Ham count is greater than my spam count but I have had NO comments on the blog. I have 26 plug-ins running.

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