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..

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 

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Cheers.

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 ?

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…