[wp-forums] Akismet's auto-bozing

[ipstenu at ipstenu.org]

Combine this with my totally non-scientific 'Hey, how come posts and  
people that mention SEO are getting bozo'd!?' study ... that makes a  
certain amount of horrific sense.

I emailed Rich off-list speculating it was bb-plugins/akismet.php's  
function bb_ksd_check_profile()

Quoting Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com>:

> 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
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