Getting flagged as spam by akismet

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