Comments on: Dear Akismet…

By: Alan Trewartha

Alan Trewartha — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 21:12:48 +0000

Love to know if you find this works (i’m trialling it myself). In akismet plugin file, find function “ksd_auto_check_comment” and add these lines

get_currentuserinfo();
if ( !$user_ID ) {

before the line near the start which begins $comment['user_ip'] and then add an end “}” before the “return” line.

hope that’s clear

By: Alan Trewartha

Alan Trewartha — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:41:47 +0000

i am working on hacking akismet to leave logged in user comments alone. BRB if i get it working.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 22:19:32 +0000

You could do something simple like stick it in the HTTP response headers. Then you’d just be piggybacking the data along with the response, similar to how feed aggregators report subscriber numbers to feed generators (I’m pretty sure many of them do that in the user agent header of the request). Then it’s available for anyone who wants to read it.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 19:38:24 +0000

We’ve always kept key/blog aggregate stats, and since a month or so ago we’ve kept daily stats for everyone. The plan is to make it available as flashy graphs in your WP.com dashboard, you’ll be able to see the stats for all your blogs in one place. If I can figure a sane way to put it into XML through our normal API stuff, I will.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 17:54:59 +0000

Holy AI, Batman! That’s pretty impressive that: 1) Akismet is at 4-9’s and 2) Akismet keeps track of that. Okay, maybe it’s not that impressive that Akismet tracks it. But it is nice. When will you be adding the ability to fetch that number to the API?

By: Akismet

Akismet — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 10:23:29 +0000

Dear Ryan, sorry!

Sometimes I screw up, my only redeeming quality is that I usually learn from my mistakes. I blame this one on too much eggnog.

On the bright side, this screw up combined with the other false positives and missed spam you’ve reported still has my batting average at 99.99882% accuracy for your blog.

But I’ll try harder and make sure not to axe you when you’re logged in as admin, which is a little silly. If you run into any problems again, feel free to contact me.

Here’s to a spam-free 2007!