[wp-forums] Akismet's auto-bozing

[Otto]

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 11:04 AM,  <ipstenu at ipstenu.org> wrote:
> I did a quick, totally not scientific test.  I noticed Alex Rabe was marked
> bozo.  I unbozo'd him and cleared out the queue.  He posted again. And I
> checked. Again, he's a bozo.
>
> This ... is a problem. If people are getting automagically flagged as a bozo
> by the spam-checking tool, we're going to get a lot of false positives, and
> annoyed people.

Actually, it's much more interesting than that.

It appears to run their *profile data* through Akismet, and then marks
them as a bozo or not based on that. Specifically, it runs their
occupation and interests through the service.

This happens on registration and when a profile gets edited.

-Otto