What happens if I get put on Akismet? How do I get Off Akismet?

Stop Comment Spam

If you are unlucky enough to get put on the Akismet list of Comment Spammers, good luck to you!  This is going to be a long hard fight to get yourself off the list.  You will have to prove to them that you do not belong on the list this is going to be a time consuming effort. 

The first thing you should do is ask yourself why you got put on the list in the first place.  Have you been spamming comments?  Do you leave excessive comments that are irrelevant to the post and only trying to get people to go to your site?  Do you leave comments on unrelated blogs and write comments about unrelated issues?  These type of things will increase the likely-hood that several different sites have marked you as spam.  Once they do that your info gets put into the Akismet database and get enough bad marks against you and you will be on the list.  The list is used by A LOT of blogs, so it is not a good list to be on.

Second, go to the Akismet website.  You will find instructions on what you need to do to get off their list.  Yes, that is all I have – go to their site, they will tell you how to get off their list if you are indeed put on by mistake.