Today I made my rounds commenting on a lot of your blogs my fellow book lovers. This evening I noticed something strange. I hadn’t received a single notification after mid-morning…now, my blog is still fairly new but it’s never crickets. After testing over at Gretchen’s page ChicNerdReads, we quickly realized none of my comments were posting.
After some research in Word Press Community Forums, I found an answer dating 5 years back. WordPress uses a spam blocker called Askismet & sometimes Askismet will mistake your IP address as spam and Blacklist you. Today, Askismet mistook me for a bot! & all of the comments I poured my soul into went straight into your spam folders.
Solution: Obtain enough approved comments from those of you I commented on & happened to be tossed into your spam folders. Once I obtain enough approvals, Askismet will re-learn my IP & take me off the virtual Blacklist in 1 to 2 days. Yes, this means you probably won’t see all of the wonderful comments I leave on your Top 5 Wednesday/Waiting On Wednesday….Unless of course you look for me in Spam where all the losers are benched (for no reason it can happen to anyone) -_-
I will continue making my rounds tonight & tomorrow, so please check your spam folder for little ol’ me & if you happen to like me…be a dear & click approve ๐
I hope this post helps anyone going through a similar situation or even going forward ๐
LairOfBooks 
Sorry this happened to you! ๐ฆ
For all the blogs I follow, I get posts sent directly to my email and today every single one was getting sent to my spam folder. I knew it was weird that after 1pm I hadn’t received a single email hahaha
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I believe I did stop by you blog Kourtni & left you a comment ๐ฆ If by any chance you see my comment, plz approve me…I’m hoping to get off this spam business soon lol thanks again for stopping by ๐
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I just did!!
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Thanks a Mil! ๐
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No problem! ๐
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Can’t imagine how frustrating this is!! I’ve actually been getting so many comments in my spam folder from people I know lately. I’m terrible and always forget to check it too and then I feel bad ๐
Super helpful post, Lilly!! Hopefully this will be able to help anyone else dealing with similar issues.
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very frustrating but I’m beginning to see it working! I will be checking my spam folder from now on & I hope the post does help, thank you ๐
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Hope it’s sorted!! I can’t believe the timing of it happening to me too ๐ I contacted Askismet and just got a reply from them so hopefully I can get sorted it soon too.
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was Askismet helpful?
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Yeah, I’m going to check every day. What probably happens is that one user has it as spam, then Askimet recognizes the IP address from the one spam attempt, and considers the IP address spam from then on. So it’s probably just one instance that created this whole mess. My theory at least….
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That’s a good theory! Although it would suck to be considered Spam, it happens lol
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Well, I’m going to check daily and I’m going to let ppl know if I find them in my folder, just in case!
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Thank you, it’s still not fixed. I can only comment on the blogs that approve my comments at least one time.
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So stupid!!
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Yeah I’m making my rounds trying to get more bloggers to approve my comments, it’s a slow process smh
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That really sucks! I’m so sorry this happened to you. ๐ฆ
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Thank you, it took the entire evening/night but sub think it’s working now. I didn’t know that I even had this issue since the 14th of this month smh
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Akismet is funny, I hope this will ever happen to me, sorry!
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Crazy enough, the comment you left was sent to my spam folder. I just found & approved it ๐ฆ
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Oh my God, it’s happening to me also! Wait, I just tried commenting on a blog I have commented on before and my comment showed. I don’t think I’ve made a comment on your blog before. That’s why ๐
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But it’s not showing anymore. I hope they see and re-approve me sigh.
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this is quite frustrating, sorry that you’re experiencing this also.
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still having this issue
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Oh no! I checked my spam folder just in case! Hope this gets resolved soon.
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Thank you Amanda, I believe it has been fixed. Yours is one of the first blogs I was able to comment on today w/out being sent to spam. Hope that was the end of that ๐๐
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Yay!!!
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