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WordPress: Dealing with Comment and User Registration Spam.

featured 414 days, 8 hours, 33 minutes ago posted by owlowl 416 days, 22 hours, 51 minutes ago
Thursday, July 16, 2009 12:03:17 PM GMT Monday, July 13, 2009 9:45:01 PM GMT

This is a fine one.  Anyone who uses WordPress may need to deal with this.  Unfortunately, despite using reCAPTCHA, Akismet still picks up tons of span on my blog.  So why am I getting spam comments when I have reCAPTCHA? The answer could surprise you. I really had no idea, but it turned out reCAPTCHA is marking those that come in as spam and that resulted in them appearing in the Akismet spam folder making it appear that Akismet caught them.  How’s that for mistaken identify!  Some time back when I ins...

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