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Jan Dembowski
(@jdembowski)
Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
Sorry, you’re upset but what are you talking about?
Hi Toby,
Welcome to WordPress.org forums, these forums are for the WordPress.org software rather then the WordPress.com hosted service. You can find more information about the difference http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
Specifically, there is no company here, rather this is a volunteer led project and forums.
If you are struggling to login to a WordPress.com site, or have received spam complaints from them, then you need to contact them directly, there is nothing we can do and they don’t regularly these forums.
WordPress as a software doesn’t by default have the ability to accuse you of spamming, it does however come bundled with a piece of software called Akismet.
Akismet is created by a company called Automatic who also run WordPress.com and it has a mechanism to flag comments and other things as SPAM, this is normally automated process and can have false positives.
If Akismet might be the issue for you, you can find out information http://akismet.com/
So to summarise,
Really sorry to see you upset, I hope it can be resolved!
WordPress.org support forums are specifically for the software, and as such we can’t really help you get unblocked by what ever service is blocking you or even help identify the service.
If it’s WordPress.com or Akismet related, you are best contacting them directly. Otherwise you will need to go directly to whoever/whatever has told you “WordPress” specifically has blocked you and ask for more information.
Hope you get it sorted though!
I cannot log in to Akismet.
JenR
(@jennifer-roberts)
Did you set up an account on WordPress.COM here:
https://akismet.com/plans/
It’s free – just click on the plan on the left side – then follow the prompts to create an account on WordPress.COM – it’s not the same as here or your WordPress site – but it’s necessary to use Akismet since that’s run through WP.COM.
I’m going to guess that he is on the akismet black list. A centralized black list that makes things a pain in the arse if you happen to get on it, and sometimes can be extremely difficult to get off of it.
For real users. Spammers can get off of it just by changing their e-mail address – easy for them to do since there is no personal value to their address.
Akismet probably works to some degree but until it provides clear and detailed methods of blacklist removal with humans who review that process in a timely manner, it can cause major problems for legitimate users and has done so in the past.
Sadly not a lot we can do to help with Akismet logins, best of getting in touch with them directly. Going to close this thread as really nothing we can do and don’t want it to steer to far off topic
