It seems that Askimet has put me and my IP on their list of spammers…I can’t even comment on my own blog now when logged out, since it’s running Askimet (very successfully!), too.

The only problem is that I’m not a spammer. (In fact I wish I would engage much more with other bloggers by leaving comments on their thoughtful posts.)

I figured out that Askimet categorizes my comments as spam when I tried to post a comment on Andreas blog and it didn’t show up. So I chatted him up on Skype, since I suspected it to be a problem of his new comment system.
But what we learned was that my comment in fact got labeled as spam by Askimet. Ouch.

My first suspicion is that it might have to do something with a few test comments I made on my own blog back when I had to fix some wordpress issues with my comment system. These test comments basically just said “test test” and I entered about 5-10 in total, at most. Maybe this was enough for Askimet to put my IP on their blacklist? Kudos, that’s a pretty eager learning algorithm you got there, yet this time it definetely got a false positive.

The worst case scenario - and I don’t even want to think about it - is that I got pwned and someone is now using my IP to promote ear enlargement or other crap. Tho I don’t even know if that’d be possible.

I’ve contacted the Askimet support with this problem and hope that they’ll get back to me soon.
Please.

If anyone else would have a suggestion on how to handle this, please leave a comment or chat me up, the latter being probably the safer way to reach me

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