[wp-forums] Forums and akismet spam again

Podz podz at tamba2.org.uk
Sun Oct 15 15:05:27 GMT 2006


Handy wrote:
> I'll be brief.  two items.  One an issue, the other a request:
> 
> 1)  This guy fell back into the "every post is spam" trap again:
> http://wordpress.org/support/profile/37649   Mentioned him a few weeks ago
> and all was good until friday or so.

I saw that this morning and I need to talk to Matt later. We'll get him
cleared.

> 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.

P.


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