Getting flagged as spam by akismet

eosterholm

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hunghcm

@dennis100 i have same problem, now i must login by fake IP.

stephenw10

If changing your IP is allowing it then your real address has probably been blacklisted for some reason. If it's a dynamic address then just reconnect to change it.

Steve

pourts

Having same problem w/ Akismet.

And the funny thing is I can't change my IP address because I am coming on the forum to ask for help with my VPN client running on pfsense!

catch 22

Anywho... this akismet spam filter seems to be way way to strong. I'm not sure how its optimized but it feels like its flagging lots of false positives right now.

johnpoz

@pourts said in Getting flagged as spam by akismet:

I can't change my IP address because

How about coming in from your phone? The one thing I wish we could do with akismet is whitelist IPs or a user account would even be more helpful.. There isn't a lot of reason to why it blocks something either, from my understanding there is no log of blocks - which would be really helpful.. User X blocked because score of 42 with this breakdown. Kind of like some spam filters when they filter mail..

You would think it could figure out that wall of text coming in from some SPAM heavy country would get flagged, from a 1 post wonder - yet those get through quite often.

edit: btw I see from your IP history, that one of the IPs is listed on a block spam list..

edit2: make that another one of your IPs has a huge reporting of on the spam list, reported a LOT!! PM me if you want the details of which IPs are listed on the block spam list.

edit3: wow, so from your history you have an IP that changes last octet, .56, 57 and 58 - all three of these have huge amount of reports on the block spam list.

pourts

@johnpoz
I found a workaround, its just tedious.

I hope Akismet is saving the mods tons of time and headache. From the perspective of a user I think it is a huge pain in the ass. Is this something forced on the mods from Netgate corporate?

johnpoz

@pourts looking at your IPs - most of them are on the spam block list, with multiple reports.. Looks to me coming from some vpn service, the IP block is owned by a CDN service.. Not some typical ISP..

pourts

@johnpoz
Would you be interested in taking a look at my thread here?: https://forum.netgate.com/topic/174683/openvpn-client-working-but-other-ports-vlans-now-offline/10?_=1663707824757

I am running a VPN client on my Netgate 2100 on LAN port #1. For some reason I am unable to get out to the internet directly (no VPN) on the other 3 ports.

Side question: who decides what the spam reporting process is for VPNs? What is stopping a VPN company from posting lots of fake reports against their competitor's IP addresses?

johnpoz

@pourts as to who reports spam.. I would assume you could false report.. But from looking at the reports they are from all over. So either the person or company planting false reports is taking the effort to report them from all over the place ;) Or legit spam is taking place and being reported by the forum operators..

edit: example - these are 2 of your IPs you have come from.. Not like they have 1 report ;)

And the .58 also listed in your history has multiple as well, just not as many as these when I sorted by reports..

With your ips being listed on the spam report list, it is no wonder akismet is flagging your posts..

pourts

@johnpoz
Interesting. Thanks for helping build my knowledge. Time to stop paying for a garbage VPN.

Are these reports specific to "forum operators"? You used that term earlier. I ask because my IPs seems to work fine everywhere else, for instance Twitter (where there is a huge bot problem now that you mention it...).

johnpoz

@pourts yeah a list I "believe" or one at least of the ones akismet uses is a list for forum operators to report spam

https://stopforumspam.com/

The true inter workings of akismet is a bit of mystery from my understanding. But this list is made of ips that are reported by forum operators..

I responded to your other thread btw giving example of how to policy route.

stephenw10

Yup, unfortunately the akismet plugin for nodebb has almost no visibility or tuning options. In other forum software there is far more. Hopefully that might improve.

coolman1987us

still blocking me from posting. this forum is useless because of that stupid filter

stephenw10

Unfortunately without the filter it would also be useless. You just need some upvotes.

Gooberpatrol66

Hello, please upvote me so I can post a question

Gooberpatrol66

thanks, that worked

opoplawski

I'm getting flagged as well. Upvotes appreciated. I'll try from some different IPs as well.