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All new post marked as SPAM (awaiting for moderation)
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sptab
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May 31, 2013 - 1:31 pm

Since a couple of hours, all new posts made on my forum are being marked as spam and are awaiting for moderation by the admin.

I don't recall making any particular change to my Wordpress or Simple Press setup these last days, I even registered a new account to AKISMET hoping that would fix it... without results frown

Where should I look for this problem ? What's the best option to temporarily disable SPAM checking on posts ?

Thank you in advance for helping me fixing the issue quickly, forum members are a bit upset with all their posts going into moderation.

Cheers.

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Mr Papa
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May 31, 2013 - 2:46 pm

yeah, akismet seems to be hiccuping - a bunch for us here too... we have no control over that... only thing you can do is go into the admin bar settings and disable akismet checking... forum - admins - global admin options..

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May 31, 2013 - 3:06 pm

Thanks for the "Do not use Akismet" setting tip, I actually missed it when check the forum configuration.

Even my post here in this actual topic was saying "Awaiting Moderation" a few minutes ago confused

Do these things resolve by themselves usually ? Does accepting a post from moderation report the message as HAM (ie good, not SPAM) to AKISMET, which would normally improve their filtering ?

Cheers.

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Mr Papa
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Jun 1, 2013 - 1:17 am

I dont believe we currently send Ham back to akismet...  I seem to remember discussing with Andy but dont recall the outcome... perhaps he can enlighten both of us tomorrow since he wrote the akismet integration ;)

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Yellow Swordfish
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Jun 1, 2013 - 4:34 am

No we do not yet. The intention was to go back and add it in but it seems to have been overlooked. I am opening a ticket on it now to make sure it gets done.

on the plus side though it looks like the Akismet servers are working proprerly now.

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sptab
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Jun 1, 2013 - 4:49 am

Thanks for taking care of the HAM reporting to Akismet and for reporting about their server.

I'll re-enable Akismet filtering on my forum and will let you know...

Cheers.

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Yellow Swordfish
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Jun 1, 2013 - 4:58 am

We appear to be good here now and we didn't turn it off so I am assuming they have resolved their problems of yesterday

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sptab
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Jun 1, 2013 - 6:04 am

I've got a few posts since I re-enabled Akismet, none of them went into moderation, so far so good.

Cheers.

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Gomlers
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Jun 1, 2013 - 7:16 pm

Same thing happend to us... I did not think about the akismet-settings. Thanks.

I thought it could be a forum-update or something, but that would be weird as well. I don't think it's possible for simple press to self-update without me pressing some buttons :) ?

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Mr Papa
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Jun 1, 2013 - 8:57 pm

nope. you have to force an update - nothing automatic... and akismet occasionally hiccups... I really get bombarded on some sites when it stops marking anything as spam for a while...

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