Akismet extension and module combo

mc717990…You should start a new help thread. You probably won’t get many answers just tacking it onto this seemingly unrelated thread, or is it related and I don’t catch the connection?

I imagine it started during testing Akismet, since this is what happens when you try to post duplicate content: eekb:// Unable to receive your comment at this time.

Bingo - only got the error as I started testing akismet. Thought it was a bug there. Looks like it might not have been the duplicate entry issue - thanks anyways though 😊 Or something else I’d set, parameter wise - I’m playing with getting everything working, with this custom theme I’ve worked on, and, well, it’s been tricky at times 😊 Anyways, thanks for the fast responses! Jason

The extension is really working well.

What happens if a comment makes it past akismet, and we want to tag it as spam? Doesn’t seem to be a way to get the message to akismet if this happens.

It happened to me only once so far.

You close the comment, then go into the Akismet module and mark the post as spam and delete.

i installed the extension but few problems.

i get today many spam on my blog. the comments appear on my site, but without url and so on. in askimet the comment is there too, with url and so on. when i delete and sent the comment there, nothing happened. the comment was not deleted. on my blog i must delete the comment manualy.

the api key is inside.

anything is wromg with askimet on my site. ideas?

What happens if a comment makes it past akismet, and we want to tag it as spam? Doesn’t seem to be a way to get the message to akismet if this happens.

Yeah, what drusoicy said. Close it, then go the akismet module and proceed from there… 😊

i installed the extension but few problems. i get today many spam on my blog. the comments appear on my site, but without url and so on. in askimet the comment is there too, with url and so on. when i delete and sent the comment there, nothing happened. the comment was not deleted. on my blog i must delete the comment manualy. the api key is inside. anything is wromg with askimet on my site. ideas?

Was the installation successful? Like I said before, you can test the combo yourself: make sure you’re logged out and create a comment with ‘viagra-test-123’ as author. This will always be considered spam by the Akismet service.

If spam comments are posted, that could mean that: 1. akismet doesn’t think it’s spam. Mark it as such and in time comments will probably be put into the moderation queue, as akismet learns from its mistakes. 2. the akismet server was down, so the check couldn’t be performed. Maybe in a later version, I’ll add a check for that, along with the option to either close or open the comment when the server is down.

Also, if you got a lot of spam and want to delete them all at once, that might be a bit too much. Happend to me once – tried to delete over a hundred comments in one go after a night of heavy spam artillery. Checked all comments, but none were deleted. Solution: batch process them. Say 30 per go. That does the trick.

ok

and when the spam is sent to the askimet site, it disappears from the module site?

and when the spam is sent to the askimet site, it disappears from the module site?

If you go to the Akismet Module page in your control panel, select all the (closed) comments, and use the “mark as spam and delete” option, then the comments are sent to the akismet service and deleted immediately after that.

All the module does is either delete or open comments, along with the proper communication with the akismet server (which is not visible to the user).

You can still use the EE-native way to open, close or delete comments, but then there’s no communication with the akismet server.

thxs 😊

Since upgrading to the latest build, this doesn’t seem to be working. When someone tries to comment on the site, they just get:

“Error

Unable to load the following extension file:

ext.akismet.php”

I disabled and re-enabled it, but the problem persists 😊

Thoughts?

I was unable to reproduce the error on my site, drusoicy. However, there shouldn’t be a file called ext.akismet.php, but ext.akismet_check.php.

Yes, I have ext.akismet_check.php in my extensions folder - I have no idea why EE is looking for ext.akismet.php. How the heck do I fix that?

Just for kicks, I made a duplicate of ext.akismet_check.php and named it ext.akismet.php. Now, this is the error I get when someone leaves a comment:

Fatal error: Class ‘Akismet’ not found in /home/****/public_html/****/core/core.extensions.php on line 169

Note - I have been using this Akismet module, without a hitch, for at least 6 weeks now.