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By kilax, November 8, 2009 8:44 am

I am having major Akismet issues on this blog. It stopped working because it cannot connect to a firewall, or is blocked by a server or something. My webhost has not been able to help, and as a result, I am getting HUNDREDS of spam comments.

I deactivated Akismet and installed WP-SpamFree. Has anyone had this issue on a wordpress blog before? Any insight?

These are the types of things that make me so frustrated, I consider shutting down my blog. This shouldn’t be so difficult to figure out.

4 Responses to “Akismet Issues”

1. Hotch Potchery says:

   November 8, 2009 at 12:10 pm

   I know of nothing that you are blogging of today so I am no help…BUT don’t shut down your blog!!!!
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2. Jillian says:

   November 8, 2009 at 2:44 pm

   I had the same thing happen a few months ago, so I deactivated Akismet. I ran my firewall again and everything has since been fine. I never reactivated Akismet but I also have never had any more problems.
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3. DeAnne says:

   November 8, 2009 at 6:06 pm

   I got a weird message earlier but when I tried connecting again it worked. . . I however am no where near as popular as you so I didn’t get spammed.

4. Ren says:

   November 9, 2009 at 12:01 am

   I haven’t had a problem with Akismet, but you could enable comment moderation until you get things figured out.
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