More spam comments

Hi @geckoroutes, I don’t believe anything has changed that would suddenly prevent those from being caught. Are you marking them as missed spam? If you are and things aren’t improving, please reach out to us via our contact form and we’ll get your site information and API Key and will help investigate the issue.

You can reach us here: https://akismet.com/contact/

Thanks!

Hello Josh,

Unfortunately, the spam messages keep coming through despite them being marked as spam.

Thanks a lot for offering help to investigate in this issue. IF it doesn’t change in the next week, I will reach out via the contact form.

Best,

Maarten

I have also been experiencing a consistent loss of accuracy with Akismet, see this screenshot of stats: https://imgur.com/a/yfBdKjL
Every day I mark as spam a solid 10 bbpress topics, but I still get tons nevertheless.

One example of comment that was not caught (but that looks clear spam to the eye): https://imgur.com/a/dlvNhOb
I would say the format of non-caught spam is quite similar to this.

I hope we can go back to 99% accuracy!! In these months I have had to disable direct commenting, since we’d otherwise be flooded with spam on the frontend. But this means people have to wait a good day before we review them and theirs is published, which is suboptimal ??

For me it luckily changed back to a much better accuracy. I marked many comments as spam and now the amount of spam comments are back to just a few per week.

Hope it will soon get better for you too.

For us it’s been several months now, with no improvement unfortunately ??

@ste_95, sorry to hear about the low accuracy lately. I think it would be best to dig into those issues with you via email to prevent disclosing any of your information publicly here. Could you reach out to us here please:

https://akismet.com/contact/

If you could include your API key, site URL, and any specific examples like that, then we can get to the bottom of it as fast as possible.

We have also noticed an uptick in spam comments getting through in the past couple of weeks. We are marking them as spam but it seems to be increasing.

@mswas please contact us here:

https://akismet.com/contact/

If you could include your API key, site URL, and any other information that you think might be helpful, we’ll be happy to look into this for you. Thanks!