WordPress Forums Bug

[Mystagogue]

I’ve made about a half-dozen posts in these forums, and I’ve noticed that sometimes the post author is shown as myself (Mystagogue) and sometimes it is shown as “Anonymous,” even though I am logged in.

For example, here is a post I just made but it shows me as “anonymous.” I tried editing that post, moments after I made it, and the edit button simply sends me back to the forums homepage. When I tried to reply to my post, it said the “topic is closed.” Wow! It closed within 3 minutes of me creating it?

Obviously something is very wrong. What might be the problem?

[James Huff]

Akistmet thought you were a spammer.

The good new is, your posts have been rescued, and hopefully Akismet has learned from its mistake.

[Mystagogue]

Akismet thought a registered user, posting on plugins, was a spammer? I’m curious of what I did that was so suspicious.

Anyway, I’m making this reply in part to see if I can indeed make replies (I’ve previously been barred from doing so) and to test and see if I’m still wrongly listed as ‘anonymous’ if the reply does go through.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

We (mods) clean out the spam queue many times in the day. A lot of innocents get caught. Akismet checks post frequency, keywords, your URL, and a bunch of super seekrit stuff I have no idea about. And yes, quite regularly, it gets really freakin’ stupid and thinks good people are spammers.

(Of note – ALL posters on this site are registered, so that doesn’t matter a bit)

[James Huff]

Also of note, both ipstenu and myself were frequently caught by Akismet, despite years of posting here, so we know how you feel.