[wp-forums] Akismet's auto-bozing

[Rich Pedley]

On 03/11/2010 17:46, Rich Pedley wrote:
> 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.

and a doh from me - I've covered this before

ck has a skip akismet plugin:
http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/skip-akismet

I then coded a plugin to stop akismet check after a user has x posts, 
and to always check for any you don't trust (on user edit page)
http://quirm.net/download/?dl_cat=5


Rich