I had a rather long post (lots of html formatting, etc). Akismet considered it to be spam and I was advised to contact the forum administrator. I looked around several times, but failed to see a link I could follow to contact a forum administrator. So, I was wondering what the triggers were that flag a post as being potential spam, so that I can remove them if they're in the post? Thanks asked 27 May '17, 01:35  Airsniffer edited 30 May '17, 02:39  grahamb ♦ |
One Answer:
I've no specific info on what causes a question to be flagged, but I think an excess of links and a low original poster "karma" might be involved. Try posting in plain text, an admin will reformat if required. answered 29 May '17, 07:55 grahamb ♦ |
Perhaps Wireshark Q&A has a custom comment blacklist and one or more words being used is on that list?
A quick google search found an example of such a list: https://digwp.com/2010/02/stop-spammers-custom-blacklist/
An even bigger example of a blacklist is linked from here: https://github.com/splorp/wordpress-comment-blacklist
I still don't know if Wireshark is using such a list, but I suspect so.
Thanks, grahamb. Going off of what you mentioned, it may be the HTML formatting that's flagging the post. I will try to post a very short version of it and see how that works.
I tried to upvote your response, but a message told me that I needed around 15 points and that I only have 6 so far.