Bug with WordPress’s Akismet Stats Reporting
On your blog stats page, you have the Spam section with a remark:
“Akismet has protected your site from XYZ spam comments.”
Now, if you check your spam comments, find an authentic comment and de-spam it, this XYZ count should reduce, right? I mean, I’m telling WordPress/Akismet that the comment should not be counted as spam!
I just found out - the count doesn’t change. Bug?
Yea, even I thought that was funny.
Or perhaps an just an oversight on the part of the programmer who forgot to include the recovered comments while calculating total count
Lets give them benefit of doubt! Akismet makes our life unbelievably easier, you’d agree!
(PS: I used WP Hashcash for some time and Akismet’s counter counts even if WP Hashcash is not executed. Thats kinda strange too.)
Priyank
July 25, 2007 at 4:09 am
Yup – I agree. This is something very minor I noticed…Akismet is great!
I don’t know about Hashcash since I use the hosted version of wordpress.com and not on my site…
mahendrap
July 25, 2007 at 3:57 pm
Mahendra,
Why would they want to wilfully own up to mistakes, eh?
Not a bug. It’s advertisement
krishashok
July 26, 2007 at 12:39 pm