What should you do if your comment is marked as spam?

What should you do if your comments are being flagged repeatedly as spam by Akismet? This is an interesting question coming from one commentator and even myself is puzzled about it. Akismet doesn’t have any setting menu to filter out comments which have certain traits before they are considered as spams, like what Spam Karma has.

I know, it could be troublesome for you either as a commentator or a moderator. As a commentator, you’re frustrated since your comment does not appear on the post, while as a moderator, you have to moderate them everyday, which is quite a tedious work especially if you are receiving hundreds of comments everyday.

I have to keep de-spaming it with hope that it won’t be there again, but it doesn’t work. Next thing you know, the same commentator appears again as spam. Why is the ‘de-spam’ not learning that this is actually not a spam? I don’t quite understand how it works, but it must be something to do with their anti spam engine. Even on Akismet FAQ, “Not Spam” checkbox should work to overcome this, but not in my case.

Don’t worry, if you see a regular comment on your Akismet page, just click the “Not Spam” checkbox and submit, and the comment will be sent back to Akismet as a mistake. The system will learn from your submission, though it may take a day or so in some cases. False positives, as they’re called, are extremely rare and we should watch them very closely.

You as this blog commentator
Is your comment flagged as spam on other blogs as well? I’ve identified a few commentators having his comment frequently flagged as spam.
Have you contacted Akismet about this problem before?

Solution
I couldn’t find the exact solution for this. But while digging on this issue further, quickonlinetips seems to has faced the same issue before. The de-spam comment does not work for them too, and according to them, the best way is to contact Akismet and tell them about your problem.

Other resources
While digging on this issue too, I found some other discussions in wordpress forum, but apparently it hasn’t been resolved yet. So I believe what quickonlinetips is suggesting above is the best at the moment. If you have ever heard about this issue somewhere else (on which I had missed), please do let me know on my comment section.

Akismet new features
On an unrelated story, akismet has a new interface which separates comments, trackbacks and pingbacks to separate tabs.

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