Akismet doesn’t show spam descriptions

  • This was true of my last version with WP 2.0.6, and now I’m having the same problem with 2.1 as well. When I go to comments and then to Akismet, it tells me how many it’s blocked, but doesn’t give me any further information.

    What gives? Is there somewhere else I should be looking? Configuration only gives me a place to put a key.

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  • I too have the same problem. I’m running WP 2.1 with Akismet 2.0. The plugin was working fine until just a few days ago when I noticed the number of spam comments was incremented (in the Dashboard) but under “Comments” menu, Akismet showed “0” in the queue. Clicking on Akismet showed nothing but the number of spam comments it had protected me from.

    I did as “armymomnj” did and deleted and downloaded another copy of Akismet 2.0, uploaded and reactivated. Same problem. Akismet incremented (from 197 to 199 spam comments) yet Akismet still showed zero in the “comments” menu and nothing on the Akismet page.

    I have no other spam comment stopping plugins such as Bad behavior or Spam Karma installed. Only Akismet, Simple Trackback Validation and Did-you-pass-math plugins. These are all WP 2.1 compatible and all worked without a hitch until a few days ago when Akismet began making my possible spam comments disappear. Oh…and I do not have the “Automatically delete comments on posts over a month old” checked either.

    Bottom line: The new version of Akismet appears to be immediately deleting all possible spam comments it catches without any user intervention and no longer holds them in the Akismet queue as it should.

    I initially thought it was not showing duplicate comments or comments from known (previously caught) spam addresses. Could this be the case?

    blogcity

    (@blogcity)

    I’m having a similar problem where on my front page it says 0 spam caught yet in the SITE ADMIN >> COMMENTS >> # Awaiting Moderation (0)
    # Akismet Spam (49)

    Should it not show 49 on the front page too? You can view it here https://www.blouberg.co.za/

    I have entered my wordpress.com API key, and it has validated it and says it in green.

    moosers

    (@moosers)

    This has been happening to me as well. Last night, my Akismet counter showed it had caught 446 spam comments. This morning when I woke up, the counter showed 495 spam comments caught, but there was nothing in my spam queue to review. (I do not have the box checked to auto-delete spam on posts older than a month.)

    This all started about a week ago and I am troubled by this because I want to see the spam comments and determine for myself if these are spam or not.

    Any insight available?

    Just so it’s posted here. The problem was with the Aksimet servers. The problem has since been resolved and Aksimet has been working fine. At least for me anyway.

    Kirk,

    Thanks for the info. Unfortunately, it looks like they may need to take another look at their servers. Two nights ago, my counter said 531 spam deleted and the next day it registered 537 deleted with nothing in the folder. I hope that it was a minor glitch and they are working on it.

    Again, though, thanks for the info. That let’s me know that I was not losing my mind.

    Using WordPress 2.1.3, the freshest version of Akismet, auto-deleting turned off and no other spam plugins I am having the same problem as KirkM had four months ago. Anyone have any other idea what might be the root of this problem?

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