Title: False positives issue
Last modified: May 22, 2025

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# False positives issue

 *  [sagescrub](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sagescrub/)
 * (@sagescrub)
 * [1 year ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/false-positives-issue/)
 * Hello, we have been receiving some relatively larger volume of false positive
   spam comments lately. It seems like it is happening on specific pages, not necessarily
   site wide, but that might just be happenstance based on links sent in our email
   campaigns to specific pages at the times the false positives are happening.
 * The readme of the plugin says that manual spam comments are not blocked, but 
   in this case it is happening that manual comments are blocked sometimes. I wonder
   if your algorithm has got more sophisticated and the readme is not yet updated,
   or if there is a bug.
 * In any case it would be nice to have some controls to increase or decrease the
   manual spam blocking feature, even if it’s simply through a PHP filter. It would
   be nice to adjust manual spam blocking aggressiveness level across the website,
   or possibly even by page, or the ability to whitelist certain pages from blocking
   manual spam.
 * Also it is not clear from the documentation if the plugin is learning from what
   we mark “Not spam” to help improve the algorithm in the future.
 * Coincidentally I noticed a [similar support topic](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/many-false-positives-recently/)
   opened 7 months ago but it was closed without any feedback. I hope you can offer
   some feedback and explanation or options how we can deal with false positives.
 * Thank you so much for your time and attention!
    -  This topic was modified 1 year ago by [sagescrub](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sagescrub/).

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