Apr 25, 2009
AKissMeAsset Lamers | I’m Blacklisted On Akismet
I noticed my comments don't show up at all on blogs where I see fit to express my valuable opinion. This way the blogosphere is loosing all that I can give and misses on important bits of information I can no longer put out as it seems I'm being censored. I can understand their hate against me. The hate of the system against those that stray from it's sunny and even path.
I would hate myself too ... if I weren't me! But I'm lucky that way ;)
Why you don't see me comment on your blog
Many wonder why I don't comment much. I'm a ghost ... floating around .... watching, observing but hardly interfering with the flow of evolution. Sometimes I do comment but there is an occult organization trying (and succeeding) to prevent me from helping webvolution.
There are two main reasons you don't see my comment on your blog:
- I didn't post a comment (duh… obviously)
- I have been censored by Akismet (the poor man's antispam solution)
I think I'm blocked by IP (even if it's dynamic). If I add a URL with my post in the site-URL or a URL in the content I get sent into the Spambox. I wouldn't be shocked is 5ubliminal is a banned word in comments. Fuck'em! I love those who for 10 people who create problems ban 100-1000 by c-class IP.
Kill'em all ... let God sort'em out! - the Akismet way
What is Akismet?
Akismet is Wordpress'es antispam plugin. It was made to control the unsuspecting masses. Like StatCounter placed links to Prescription Drugs sellers on your sites, Akismet is censoring your knowledge by blocking legitimate comments from the red list. You will probably never know 5ubliminal made a comment on your blog as his enlightening comment will have been mingled with the filthy brown gluey mass of spam comments, covering the light my comment could've shed upon you.
Akismet is one of the bad things leading the web to easy censorship and placing power in the hands of the few. Like GMail, this is designed to control and watch over everything you do with email. And things allegedly dangerous for your will be blocked from your view ... just 'cause they want to.
Why would you place such power into the hands of others?
Beats me, but placing more and more control into the hands of a few will take away our freedom of speech. It'll be too late to pull back.
- Google controls your email, RSS subscribers ... and so much more I don't have neither the space nor the time to list everything here
- Wordpress controls your comments
- Both Google and Wordpress control your traffic statistics
- Social Networks control most of your online interactions and bookmarks
- Services like OpenID and such track you everywhere
- Google tracks your searches
- ... and so on and so forth
They own you. I'm shocked how many registere on my blog with GMail addresses. Call me crazy but I'm considering blocking further registrations with public email services ... jury is still out. An .info domain is 2-3 bucks, hosting is a few more ... can't afford that ... get a job!
Kiss Akismet Goodbye
Do it today! Take your life (or what's left of it) back into your hands. Find any other antispam method / plugin. Math question, CAPTCHA ... anything is better than asking an external entity if the comment is worthy or not. You may have lost a lot of good comment 'thanks' to it.
I have my own antispam method that combines the Comment Form with a JavaScript to allow comments. It has not failed me ... and anything else but Akismet works too.
Akismet is made for amateurs but professionals like you (you are reading my blog ... you must know some shit) should use anything else. Stop using vital services provided by others unless you have no other choice. But there is choice here ... a lot of it.
PS: What happens if tomorrow Feedburner will remove your subscriber base / block your account because they don't like what you say?! How will you handle that? Cheers!
Way to overreact, conspiracy theories and all ;)
People use Akismet because it’s effective. A centralized antispam algorithm that gets data from thousands of sites can learn and adapt much quicker (than a standalone script), thus delivering better results. Sure, it’s now without its faults, but out of all comment spam detectors based on content analysis, Akismet is probably the best.
Your custom antispam method reminds me of WP-SpamFree (quite effective and very different from Akismet).
Yeah … but I really hate the … centralized word and content analysys (as in machine learning). I don’t trust computers to ‘think’ for themselves :)
My method adds a dynamic field to the comment form that is assigned a value by an external encrypted JS file. Hard to beat without a browser and a real hand. It catches tens of spams daily. No errors (as in valid comments doomed to spam hell)!
I’ll probably post it here in the next few days. Give people a totally unobtrusive alternative to that Akismet POS.
Btw … it blocked my comments on your blog too. I had fun watching that guy trying to get Google Image search to work. Tried to comment too … but nuttin’!
Err, yeah, I’m still using Akismet. I’d switch to WP-SpamFree, but it has some potential performance problems - it loads the entire WP core *twice* per pageview, even if you’re using caching.
Your script sounds even more like WP-SpamFree now. That plugin also checks if the user agent can run JS. It does cookie detection as well.
That poor guy seemed a bit confused.
OMFG! I took a look at that plugin. Mine works only for the comment form and is 150 lines long (with comments) … that one is freaking huge. Scary!
I’ll publish it next week.
I get blocked by Akismet when I use certain site URL’s with this name… Sucks because I’ve never spammed.
I’ve contacted them and I can comment again.
We’ll see how long it holds up.
There is still a use for askimet :) — It’s a great way to manage your comments on spam blogs — ie ones that you never update with new content manually.
I still think other plugins can do the job better. Even for splogs.
True - there are some good ones.