I have been into blogging for a little more than 2.5 years now. However, all of my blogging has concentrated on blogger as the platform of choice. Whatever features I required, I added with the help of some workarounds. Recently, I started a self hosted wordpress blog. The blog concentrates on the niche of blogging. Since my choice of blogging platform has been blogger, I have some knowledge of blogger, but when it comes to wordpress, I am just a n00b. Taking a look at the Akismet (the spam comment blocking plugin) statistics for my blog, as of writing this, it says it has blocked 197 spam comments. Reading through some of these spam comments, I found some of them to be really spammy. However, some other comments appear more of generalised comments and somewhat relevant to my blog posts' contents. Reading through these many comments being marked spam by Akismet, I now have a certain doubt arising about the efficiency of Akismet. Is it really that great as it claims itself to be? If yes, what about these general yet relevant looking comments that are being submitted and being marked spam by Akismet. Shall I ignore these comments?
I would like suggestions from whoever who has an exposure to wordpress for blogging. For your reference, I am quoting a few comments I have received but are not moderated since Akismet thinks these are spammy comments.
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Maybe, my judgement is flawed reading through such comments, but I would really like to know the thoughts of bloggers using Wordpress, on such comments. Shall I approve these comments or should I just go ahead and click that Delete Permanently button?
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I have found genuine comments from previous readers there on a couple of occasions..