[wp-hackers] Comments automatically being marked as spam

[Harry Metcalfe]

Hmm, we're using 2.9.6 -- so only one version behind. Do you know what
version was affected by the bug?

Also, the issue affects trackbacks as well as comments -- which I'd
imagine reCAPTCHA doesn't touch.

Harry


On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 09:56 -0500, Potkanski, Jason wrote:
> If you are using an older version of reCaptcha, the plugin was marking all comments as spam. The underlying recaptcha library needs an upgrade.
> 
> -Jason Potkanski
> Tribune Technology
> 
> 
> 
> On 5/20/10 9:45 AM, "Harry Metcalfe" <harry at thedextrousweb.com> wrote:
> 
> This has me really confused. I have a client whose comments are all (or,
> perhaps, almost all) being marked as spam. WP 2.8.4. Upgrading is, for
> the moment, not possible.
> 
> I have:
> 
>       * Disabled Akismet
>       * Made sure that there are no blacklisted words
>       * Checked that it's not PEBKAC[1]
> 
> Is there anything else that might automatically be putting things in the
> spam queue?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Harry
> 
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_error
> 
> 
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