[wp-forums] Forums and akismet spam again

[Handy]

Following up to myself.  Rude, I know... but bear with me.

I try to take great pains to check the spam traps several times a day if at
all possible.  I've learned a few things lately so figured I'd share and see
if any help is possible towards my request below.

99% of our users at the support forums, upon not seeing a post show up after
submitting it will re-submit.  I'd guess at least 3 more times, on average.
And gee, if the first got eaten by Akismet... well, so will the others.

However, I've learned a little stunt that helps them on their subsequent
visits.

I'll go in to the Akismet caught list and release their first post as not
spam (after checking the members profile to ensure another mod hasn't
already done that, of course!).  Then, for all the remaining dupes, I'll
mark each as not spam -- then view it and delete the thread.  One by one.

If you look at the deleted threads view in the control panel you'll see some
clumps of these.  Fun stuff!

Why do I do it like that?  Well, it seems to train Akismet when I mark all
the dupes as not spam first before deleting.  In other words, that
particular user will be less likely to fall back into the spam traps in the
future.

As you might surmise, this is tedious and time-consuming.  But it seems to
help.  I'm gambling that the up-front effort will prevent me from seeing
that user in the spam traps in the future.

With that background...

If a future release of bbPress could enhance some of the usability for
dealing with Akismet, that would rock.  For instance, a "mark not spam AND
delete" would rock.  Followed closely by an ability to multi-select.

Cheers,

Handy



On 11/14/06, Handy <handy.solo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/21/06, Handy <handy.solo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 10/15/06, Podz <podz at tamba2.org.uk> wrote:
> > >
> > > Handy wrote:
> > >
> > > > 2)  Would it be possible to add the ability to delete a post from
> > > the Admin
> > > > Content -> Akismet Spam page for mods and above?  If you look right
> > > now
> > > > you'll see that some knucklehead entered his post approx 8
> > > times.  All of
> > > > them flagged as spam.  Now, if *I* unspam one, and another mod
> > > wandered by
> > > > and forgets to check his profile and unspams another, he'll get
> > > hollered at
> > > > by a 3rd admin for dupes!  (Yes, this has happened in the past week
> > > or so.
> > > > No, I don't recall the poster).  It would be cool in a deal like
> > > that if we
> > > > could un-spam one and delete the others.  Or delete the out-and-out
> > > spam
> > > > for
> > > > that matter.
> > > >
> > > > I'm assuming I'm not the only one checking the askimet traps.  One
> > > thing I
> > > > do before unspamming is check the posters profile quick to see if
> > > I'm just
> > > > looking at a dupe.
> > > >
> > > > Thoughts on 2?
> > >
> > > That's one for Matt and Michael A - I'll point to this because now
> > > bbPress is alive and kicking that sort of thing will need addressing.
> > >
> > >
> > Whine/nag/bump  :-)
> > Any thoughts from Matt or Michael A?
> >
>
> I suppose I could "not spam" them, then delete them, but that probably
> does silly things to Akismet.
>
>