Standard, positive spam test for Akismet

Question

Is there a standard test-case message for Akismet?

Basically, it should work like the GTUBE test case for SpamAssasin (which will always get marked as spam), but for Akismet. I tried the GTUBE string but (to my surprise) Akismet gave green light.

And no, I don't want to use

buy viagra buy viagra hello I'm nigerian prince

Or anything really spammy like that. What I'd like to see is a standard test case to give Akismet a very basic sanity check. Is this a thing?

(Sorry for the spam ;)

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 10 '17 at 16:35

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Yes. As described in our API docs, to guarantee a true response, send the value viagra-test-123 as the comment_author parameter.

To guarantee a false response, send the value administrator for the user_role parameter.

answered Mar 10 '17 at 16:35

Christopher Finke

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Oh gosh, I wish you guys could have chosen something less viagraesque ;) But thanks! – Cong Ma Mar 11 '17 at 06:55
Sadly, phpbb does not allow dashes in registered user names. So use this email instead: ```akismet-guaranteed-spam@example.com``` – 3ICE Sep 15 '20 at 11:10

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 29 '19 at 02:30

To simulate a positive (spam) result, make a comment-check API call with the comment_author set to viagra-test-123 or comment_author_email set to akismet-guaranteed-spam@example.com.

So you can use akismet-guaranteed-spam@example.com for the email if you prefer not to use test strings with "viagra" in a professional environment. :)

Standard, positive spam test for Akismet

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