[spam-stopper] identifying false negatives

[Mark Jaquith]

On May 10, 2006, at 1:55 PM, John Joseph Bachir wrote:

> Greetings. Quick question- if a false negative's status is changed  
> to 'spam', does this actually report the false negative to Akismet?
>
> If so, then maybe there should be an easier way to report false  
> negatives, because I think most users are likely to just go into  
> mass edit mode and clear out the false negatives (i get batches of  
> spam trackbacks every couple days) than to click edit, change the  
> status, and save, for each one.

I thought the same thing, and wrote a patch that adds "Delete as  
spam" at several points in the WP interface, including the  
notification e-mail, and the mass edit mode.  It was since integrated  
into the work-in-progress WP 2.1

http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1048

You can see it in action if you use wordpress.com
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Mark Jaquith
http://txfx.net/