8 Responses to “The Akismet Widget for WordPress.com”

1. ileaneb
   August 5, 2009 at 11:34 pm | Reply

   I don’t understand what it means to get spam on your blog. Sorry for being so naive. Does it show up as a comment? What is the real impact for me as a blogger?
2. Ryan Markel
   August 6, 2009 at 11:42 am | Reply

   Yes; blog spam is usually in the form of comments left on your blog. Spammers fill out comments and leave a bunch of links back to sites of their own in an attempt to either get people to click back to the sites in question or to increase their search rankings.

   Without a service like Akismet to help filter this spam, it can get very irritating and time-consuming to weed out comments for the constructive ones. It’s a pretty big concern, as if a blog is left vulnerable, spammers will target it more and more.
3. Ravishankar Anantharamu
   February 21, 2010 at 9:06 am | Reply

   Hello,
   I am a recent addition to WordPress.com. I can see on my dashboard that 2 comments have been commented as spam. how can i access those 2 to see if they actually are spam?
• Ryan Markel
  February 23, 2010 at 2:23 pm | Reply

  If the comments have been flatly marked as spam and are not in your spam queue (which you could click on if it was there), you won’t be able to. They’ve been marked as “without a doubt” spam.
4. Lyn Strand
   March 16, 2010 at 3:10 pm | Reply

   But I caught a genuine comment (from my prof) – so can I change the settings on spam?
• Ryan Markel
  March 24, 2010 at 2:03 am | Reply

  If you mark a comment as “Not Spam,” Akismet will learn regarding the false positive and should change its behavior accordingly.
5. homeschool4heart
   July 12, 2010 at 8:49 pm | Reply

   I am trying to upload askimet to the wp content? Where do I find this?
• Ryan Markel
  July 14, 2010 at 3:47 am | Reply

  You don’t have to upload Akismet if you are on WordPress.com – it’s already installed for you.