[wp-forums] Akismet's auto-bozing

[Rich Pedley]

On 03/11/2010 16:48, Otto wrote:
> 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.
>

should have read this first... took me a while to find it.


But should it be checking that? Easy solution would be to comment that 
portion of the code out until a more permanent fix can be found.

Rich