My Comments on Your Posts May Be in Your Spam Filter!

On By cindy knokeIn REVERIES, Tech Marvels

https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/500x/60524293/i-am-not-spam.jpg

I was trying to comment on a blogging friend’s post today who is having a serious problem with his son, and I noticed my comments were disappearing. This reminded me of other bloggers who told me they found my comments in their spam filters in the last few weeks. So I contacted WordPress and was informed that yes, some of my comments on people’s blog posts were going to spam and they see this shouldn’t be happening, but there is nothing they can do about it. So, some of my comments may be in your spam filter because I like to read and comment on your blogs, apparently too much. If you want to read my comments to you, you must go to your spam filter and remove me from spam.
Neat huh?
http://www.glasbergen.com/wp-content/gallery/spam/spam8.gif
Here is what WordPress said to me:

“Thank you for your patience. I can see there the comments are in the spam filter. I cannot make any changes to these comments, only the site owner can. When comments are detected by our spam filter they are flagged and require approval from the site owner. This can happen for many reasons including making several comments within just a few minutes of time.
If you are having trouble submitting a comment on a site the best way to resolve it is to contact the site owner rather than make several more comments on the site. The site owner can approve your comment. Further comments when you are being blocked can’t resolve the issue.”
And then,
“I may have a solution for you to help resolve this, without the site owner.
Can you let Akismet support to prevent your comments from being flagged as spam? You will see the option in the second bullet here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/unwanted-comments/
I hope that they can make your account as good. Your comments certainly do not seem suspicious, but we know they are hitting the spam filter anyways.”

I have contacted Askimet, but this may not work, so please un-spam me if you want to read my comments on your posts.

http://mortgageporter.com/images/various/spamiam.jpg
Oh spam I am,
I do not like the spam I am!
I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.
I do not like green eggs and spam.

Would you like them here or there?

I would not like them here or there.
I would not like them anywhere.
I do not like green eggs and spam.
I do not like this Spamalot!
http://nothing-mundane.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Spamalot-Tour-3.jpg

So, it’s cheers to you from spam I am~

Good News Update: Rachel M, a fellow blogger, and WordPress/Askimet engineer has fixed my spam problem. Thank you Rachel and WordPress/Askimet! To see Rachel’s blog click on: https://rachel.blog/about/

Discover more from Cindy Knoke

Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.

266 thoughts on “My Comments on Your Posts May Be in Your Spam Filter!”

  1. I’ve made it a habit now to check my spam folder every few days – I was one who lost a lot of comments to the ether (otherwise called the spam folder) for no good reason!

    Reply

      1. Yes, me too. I was shocked when it just disappeared, and I ended up at the top of the post, not at the point where I commented. And there must have been some I missed …

        Reply

      2. Okay I just checked my Photography Blog folders and you didn’t get trapped in Limbo. I did find some weird comments in other languages without Gravatars. Those looked suspicious I permanently deleted them.
        Safe.

        Reply

  7. Oh, Cindy, I just deleted my spam of 61 without reading it through because I am sick–and the next email is from you, saying you are in my spam.I wondered why I can never find you to reply when you send me a comment on a post unless I come to your site. I’ll pay more attention now. Thanks.

    Micki

    Reply

  9. Unbelievable! First they can’t stop the spammers from taking over and now they’re throwing fellow bloggers into spam because you’re commenting on others blogs??? I don’t know what the “happiness engineers” are doing, but they’re not making anyone happy. So sorry this is happening to you! <3

    Reply

    1. I guess I commented too much! Laughing…..I got off the boat and I was so happy to be back in contact and I started making lots of comments whilst catching up on blog posts. This was my sin. Forgive me Askimet for I have sinned not……. <3

      Reply

  12. Everything – evolutionary speaking – gets improved until it hits extinction. Good things are constantly getting “fixed”. Glad it’s getting sorted out though – and welcome home!

    Reply

  13. I didn’t find any from you there, Cindy, BUT, I did find SEVERAL others that shouldn’t have been there. Thanks for the heads up – I’ll have to be more diligent! *Adds check wordpress spam folder to really long to-do list!* 😀

    Reply

  15. Hi Cindy, sorry to hear you are having problems with the comments you give. It takes time to leave a thoughtful comment that hopefully will add value to a post, so it is annoying when they are not shown for one reason or another. I am my own spam filter and read every comment before pressing the publish button, rather than leave it for some automatic spam filter to decide the merit of a reader’s comments.

    Reply

    1. That is smart of you. I do appreciate WP removing spam and I get lots of it, but now I need to be alert that buried in the spam may be legitimate blogger’s comments and that is distressing, especially since wordpress can’t do anything about it. Hopefully Askimet will, but I will have to wait and see.

      Reply

  17. Hi Cindy, I cannot follow you on your site, I do get your email posts but can’t reply via the email, I have to go to Word Press and reply there, sounds like your problem may be coming from your settings. Also go into your Word Press site and check the settings on who you follow, good luck, I am still following you, even if I can’t follow you, if you can understand that.

    Reply

    1. Oh dear! This sounds like another problem. I get notification of comments via email, but respond via wordpress. If you can’t follow me, I need to notify wordpress. I am going to your site now and will check what I can. Thank you for telling me.

      Reply

      1. If you get an answer let me know Cindy, because that is exactly my problem, I can’t respond by email notifications and when I enter my email address it always comes up as unsuccessful.

        Reply

  22. Sorry to hear about this Cindy. I seldom receive lovely comments that go to my spam folder. Most of the time, spam comments are just that…spam and I just delete them.

    Reply

  23. hi dear cindy, how could that happen to you especially… haven’t been around to much but I want you to know that I think of you… promise.. I am going to put your link on my blog to follow you at sherrisofpalmsprings.. hugs dear friend
    Sherri

    Reply

  24. I always check my spam folder now every few days Cindy but take heart in the fact as you are not alone and often in some very illustrious company in my spam folder… Love your take on it and the fact you can laugh about it!

    Reply

  26. Cindy,

    Sorry about any spam flagging. A Staph superbug infection, among other things, prevents my hands from keyboarding so that exploring Word Press’s confusing structure & rules is something I usually don’t have time to do. But I will see what I can do. Thanks for the email notification & all your participation.

    John Stiga

    JStiga@Gmail.com

    Reply

  27. Thanks for the heads up Cindy. I checked my spam folder and didn’t see any of your comments. Now I must go because I have so many offers for cheap cheap auto insurance to follow up on!
    🙂

    Reply

  31. I checked spam, but none of the comments were yours, just the usual Russian hackers and Asian porn (sorry, it’s true!). So feel free to come on over and comment anytime. 🙂

    Reply

      1. Interesting, I never got them and wondered if I was ‘off the list,’ lol! I had the experience yesterday on another site of making a comment and it disappearing mysteriously, even when I rechecked later. The internet is beyond me, I’m afraid. Like a car, I can drive, but don’t ask me to fix it! 😉

        Reply

  32. I’ve been having the same problem with some people trying to comment on my blogs – old followers, some of them, and I have to unspam them every single time, and some saying they aren’t even receiving my notifications any more.

    Reply

    1. Thank you Margaret. There were so many of them too, because once I got off the boat I was so eager to read and comment on blogs. Makes me sad people didn’t get them~

      Reply

  35. How incredibly frustrating and what an unsatisfying answer from WordPress. The one time I reached out for help on WordPress I had a similar experience. They gave me a half answer, and then a non-answer. Atrocious. I checked my spam filter but no comments from you.

    Reply

  37. Well, I hate to be the one to tell you this, but I am a bot. I was really hoping no one would notice.
    https://img-new.cgtrader.com/items/690253/2fbc788384/large/morton-cartoon-bot-3d-model-rigged-obj-fbx-c4d.jpg
    And they didn’t completely get rid of me because I can add. You know that, “Prove you are not a bot, add 12+4, response query?”
    I was always wondering, can a bot not add?
    I passed in flying colors.
    What is the virtual world coming too?

    Reply
  38. Clowie

    I hope your problem is resoved soon.

    I usually check the spam fairly regularly as akismet does sometimes put friends in there. But sometimes there are too many pages of spam to skim through!

    Reply

  42. I will check and make sure that likes of you dear Cindy have not been reduced to mere spam at my site! After reading the feedback you got from WordPress it made me think of a silly video game video, one of the best ever made, about World of Warcraft called Crossing Over. In a segment of it, the player in the game meets a Game master Edmund. He basically gives a typical speel of unhelpful nonsense and disappears before the player can even ask a question: https://youtu.be/Kgg9fQwY-0Q – if your curious.

    Reply

    1. Oh my God! Game Master Edmund clearly works for WP! Cracking up….. Seriously, I do feel just like that mystified character lost in an inexplicable virtual word full of double speak. WofW is so incredible. Such amazing artistry and visuals! Thank you for the clip.

      Reply

  43. Goodness. I went straight to my spam folder where there was a lot of weird stuff. It has to be frustrating to end up in spam. Occasionally I SEND something to spam accidentally and have to go rescue it, but stuff WordPress deems doubtful, but not certain spam usually appears in my comments with a yellow background. I hope you resolve it soon.

    Reply

  44. With the number of comments you get, I’m surprised you can keep track. I check my spam folder almost daily as posts often go astray in there but rarely comments. You are still where you should be in my life. 🙂

    Reply

  45. Good morning, Cindy,
    That’s a typical WordPress solution: “We can’t help you.” Translated, it means, “We don’t WANT to help you.” They send you to Akismet, but that’s no solution. The simplest way would be for them or Akismet, rather, to install a White List, one onto which you can put everyone you consider not a spammer. But they simply don’t want to bother. The fact is, even if you “unspam” a comment, the following ones from the same address are again marked as spam.
    I know this probloem, and therefore I frequently check my spam folders, but still I think it’s lack of willingness to help their customers on the side of WordPress – even if, like me for me mainblog – pay a lot of money for it.
    Have a great Sunday,
    Pit

    Reply

      1. Yes, that is a good point. That is what makes this “Like” thing so frustrating. Luckily, I don’t have hundreds in my spam filter but then again, I don’t get too many comments which is probably a good thing as on any given day, there are 200 plus blogs that need my attention. It’s hard to “Like” them all….

        Reply

  48. Thanks for the tip…. ugh, one more thing I have to check! I found the spam bucket and there was indeed a “real” comment in there I would have missed otherwise. I just wish there was another word for SPAM as, although I don’t eat it now, I was raised on it and looked forward to the SPAM meals… so it has spoiled the word for me!

    Reply

  49. I am sorry this has happened to you too, Cindy. Many of us have experienced this problem, and most people I am able to contact to release my commnet, but not all. I check my SPAM folder frequently. Occasionally I find legitimate bloggers in there. You have not shown up in there, yet.

    Reply

Leave a Reply