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Recently, my contest blog was flagged as spam by someone in Askimet. This gave me the problem that I could no longer leave comments on other blogs. So, my blog was blacklisted, blacklist, banned and flagged... as spam. 
First, I tried to leave myself comments and flagged them as not being spam. This did not work.
The Solution
So, I contacted Askimet. You should note that they asked for a math question to prevent bots. They don't use their own system to be contacted. That's normal since you email is blacklisted thus you could not leave a message anyway.
Choose the following option:
I have a support or feature request
Tell them about your blog and that you are even using Askimet on your WP blogs.
The morning after, I got an email from Mark that it will be fix. Sure enough, I had to leave a comment a few hours later and it worked.
Depending on their backlog, it could take a few days thus be patient.
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Luxury Paris Hotels said:
You will find this in the askimet spam bin because someone has flagged this blog: nothing I can do will get it unspammed – Ive contacted them several times and got nothing back and had friends unspam me too – no improvment!
August 12th, 2008 at 10:13 pm -
Steve McGrath said:
Because you are using a keyword sniping theme on your blog and anchor text too. It’s not a real blog in Askimet eyes but a niche blog.
August 12th, 2008 at 10:39 pm -
Fuerza y Fe said:
I don’t see the sense in preventing someone from posting on every blog, why don’t they just ban the person on the blog who filed the report? I feel it gives way too much power to the blog owner.
PS: Steve, t’es du Quebec?August 17th, 2008 at 10:23 am -
Steve McGrath said:
The question is not about preventing real posting but preventing spammers from posting. You would be amazed how much spam I get in one day on my small blog.
I think that you need to be flaggeg by more than 1 blogger to be in the list. But I agree that some bloggers don’t know about SEO and may flagged a real comment just because the author was using anchor links on a dofollow blog.
P.S. Oui, de la Ville de Quebec et toi? Use the contact form to keep it private and those comment on topic. Thanks.
August 17th, 2008 at 10:41 am
