I have previously given the Akismet Wordpress plugin glowing praise for almost completely eliminating my comment spam problems. While that is true, in the last month or so, I've had more of a false positive problem. In fact, it has now caught my own comments several times.

I wonder if there isn't some kind of poisoning going on, where spammers try hard to create messages much like legitimate ones in order to make more false positives happen. As we've seen in countless movies, the true way to defeat an alarm like those in store doorways isn't to keep the alarm from sounding, it's to cause so many false positives that people just wave you through. If the scumbags can increase the level of false positives to the point the tool is no longer useful, they have won. I hope that isn't what is happening, and instead it's just some flukes.