Akismet is still down…(If you’re at Foocamp wake Toni Schneider up)
Whew, the comment spam is still pouring in. I miss my Akismet! Someone wake Matt Mullenweg up! Heheh. I already emailed him. Interesting that this story isn’t on TechMeme or TailRank yet.
The problem is that bloggers who don’t use WordPress.com blogs mostly don’t see this as an issue. It’s a HORRIBLE issue here when Akismet isn’t doing its job. Since I’ve started using WordPress.com Akismet has blocked more than 64,000 spams.
Why does this matter? Cause imagine how bad the comments here would be if you had to wade through 64,000 spams just to participate. Whew.
Hey, if you’re at Foocamp can you wake Toni Schneider up and tell him Akismet is down? (He’s Automattic’s CEO and is at Foocamp).
Help, we’re drowning in spam here…
UPDATE: Looks like it’s fixed now. No more spam, yeah!
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August 27th, 2006 at 8:08 am
I’m getting really worried now, my host http://mediatemple.com/ is down and so is http://9rules.com, and http://zeldman.com (also hosted on mediatemple also on wordpress). I wonder if it’s spam related?
Karl
August 27th, 2006 at 8:10 am
when Matt wakes up, please have him also add an approved plugin that gives the ability to play our own .FLV videos on his hosted wordpress sites (unless I’ve missed this somewhere). Right now, hosted WordPress is the not even close to being best choice for vlogs.
I saw his post about using YouTube hosting but I’m just looking for a FLV player that can play my own videos that I host myself. YouTube != the world. I understand the arbitrary code/hosting space issues so let us host the actual files elsewhere if needed and simply point the player to the video.
Also, please add a way to add email subscriptions to hosted sites.
Booger
August 27th, 2006 at 8:42 am
That’s when having your own host with a WordPress blog is slightly better. I use SpamKarma2, as Akistmet was not catching all of my spam. Now, I catch most spam, with the occasional 1 getting through.
August 27th, 2006 at 8:43 am
Akismet is down - Comment spam flooding
August 27th, 2006 at 8:47 am
OK, I’m awake… Why do these things always happen Sunday morning??
August 27th, 2006 at 8:47 am
“The problem is that bloggers who don’t use WordPress.com blogs mostly don’t see this as an issue.”
I’d rephrase that as “The problem is that bloggers who don’t use Akismet mostly don’t see this as an issue.”
I have friends who use Akismet on their personally-hosted blogs and now have to wade through the comment spam themselves. I’m sure they see it as an issue! :)
August 27th, 2006 at 8:55 am
Thanks Toni. Actually it happened last night, but, yeah, I hate it when the gremlins come during off work hours too.
August 27th, 2006 at 9:03 am
[...] According to Scoble… Akismet is still down… [...]
August 27th, 2006 at 9:10 am
Well, to continue the Akismet feedback, I had actually used it alone for my blog. About 4 months ago, I was getting a constant amount of trackback spam. I was convinced to use SpamKarma2 along with Akismet–even using SK2’s plugin for Akismet–and it has worked fairly well. I have only had one false positive problem and the occasional trackback get through that actually has been flagged by Akismet as “Ham” (which I presume to be Akismet’s assignment of acceptable).
August 27th, 2006 at 9:54 am
I’d have to agree with Jason, Askimet alone is not sufficient in it’s present form.
August 27th, 2006 at 11:43 am
The best part of wakin’ up is Spammers in your cup…
August 27th, 2006 at 1:50 pm
[...] Just installed Akismet after reading about it over on Robert Scoble’s blog. Hopefully this means I’ll actually write some blog entries rather than deleting spam all the time. Maybe I should also look at upgrading my WordPress install some day soon. [...]
August 27th, 2006 at 3:05 pm
I have a huge beef with Akismet as they’re blocking some of my comments for no particular reason. I had one bloger make me aware of this and then I emailed Askimet asking them why it was blocked and never heard from them. I don’t see any criteria on their website that tells people as to why certain comments are blocked. I blogged about this in my post “My blog comment was labeled as spam”. Looks like they have bigger problems.
August 27th, 2006 at 3:20 pm
Chad, if your comments are blocked it’s probably for a few reasons. 1) Cause you put too many URLs into your comment. 2) Because a blogger marked your comment as spam.
See, if I mark your comment as spam, it’ll also mark it as spam on other blogs.
So, the trick is to have that blogger UNMARK your comment.
By the way, you aren’t being marked as spam by Akismet here.
August 27th, 2006 at 6:50 pm
[...] I got bombarded with comment spam over the last 24 hours and was kind of wondering what was going on. Finally catching up with my feeds, I saw that Scoble was having the same problems with spam. It looks like Akismet (the Automattic/WordPress spam filter) was down (and now, back up). [...]
August 28th, 2006 at 11:58 am
[...] I’m not the only WordPress user that’s noticed the increase in spam comments that Akismet is letting through. Scoble has noticed, too. I’m sure Toni and Matt will fix it soon. [...]
August 29th, 2006 at 6:31 pm
Thanks Robert - your comments are much appreciated and if you comment on my blog I won’t mark it as spam either. :)
August 30th, 2006 at 1:09 am
Tailrank picked it up……
http://tailrank.com/posts/562949953851330/Downtime
I think we were a bit behind that day as we had a cascading memcached failure which slowed our robots down.. ug…
Kevin
September 3rd, 2006 at 2:04 am
Robert, I’ve got the same problem as Chad with Akismet blocking my comments… on my own blog. I write nothing unusual, no links etc. It shouldn’t care about what’s in the comment if I (as a logged in user) post to my own blog.