[Plugin: Akismet] API Key, Move Blog from WordPress.com to www.remarpro.com, Stats?

  • Hi,

    I moved a blog that was hosted on wordpress.com via the Custom Domain upgrade to self-hosting using www.remarpro.com.

    So now I have a blog at wordpress.com of the form abc.wordress.com (which is stale now) and a blog using www.remarpro.com of the form https://www.abc.com.

    After the move, I installed Akismet on my www.remarpro.com blog using the API key that I had at WordPress.com.

    Akismet is working catching spam, but my question is about the statistics.

    For example, I see this line in my dashboard

    “Akismet has protected your site from 19 spam comments already, and there are 4 comments in your spam queue right now.”

    I don’t remember seeing 19 spam comments in my queue. Maybe 8 or 9 that I have seen and officially marked as spam. (Note: This blog hasn’t been up at my new host for 30 days yet, so spam comments would not have been deleted automatically yet).

    So my questions are:

    1. Do the statistics combine the spam caught at both my wordpress.com blog and this www.remarpro.com blog since I am using the same API key?

    2. Does Akismet catch and delete spam without ever putting it in the spam queue first, which is why I may be thinking there is a discrepency?

    Thanks.

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  • Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.remarpro.com Admin

    1. No.

    2. Yes, if you enabled that option on the Akismet config screen. Only on posts older than a month, I think.

    Thread Starter infosoak

    (@infosoak)

    Otto42,

    Thanks for the reply. But I have an inclination to at least question you on the answer to the first question.

    Take a look at this:

    “1304 spams caught, 367 legitimate comments, and an overall accuracy rate of 99.704%.”

    That is on the Akismet page on my www.remarpro.com blog. Obviously like I said above Akismet has protected my www.remarpro.com site only 19 times. The other ~1285 or so were from my wordpress.com blog.

    So in some way the statistics are intermingling, right?

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.remarpro.com Admin

    Well, given that, I suppose I’m wrong. ??

    I didn’t think they mixed, but heck, maybe they do for Akismet.

    Thread Starter infosoak

    (@infosoak)

    Otto42,

    Not saying you’re wrong — I am saying I am confused ??

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