line 3 is: $ch = curl_init($url);
Maybe that’s the reason, how do i fix? (:

I want to create and host sites for users either via domain mapping or just let them have their own directory while taking advantage of this plugin. Is this possible? If so where do I get help to make this happen? I ma searching high and low but no success so far.

Thanks

I would say no. The bank (account) is a service you use, and you don’t own any “hardware” or employees related to that.

It is great to see that people at Disqus are following buzz about them on other blogs! Just the thing that tips the scale for me to go Disqus rather than CommentLuv

You’re looking for someone to configure W3 Total Cache for you, including Amazon CDN?

As long as you post by hand, and not use any scripts/tools/whatnot to post rabidly, you should be fine.

Antti, thanks for the response and analysis. I do appreciate the need to have the detection filters; it is too much for the blog owner to do (they need to spend time writing other articles). I like the human flagging action as you point out.

My shortest posts are about 10 words in a sentence. I always stay on topic. I review my postings after they are approved (so I know it made it past moderators). I don’t see any of my posts being rejected by moderators. I don’t typically put links in the post. Do you know if posting too rapidly (whatever that might be defined as) triggers Akismet bot detection?

David, thanks for the comment. Personally, if I’d be forced to manually moderate all comments, including spam, I’d disable comments instead. Thus, Akismet and other spam-filters are awesome.

I’d guess the most common reason to get “blacklisted” is leaving meaningless/rude/spammy comments, and enough bloggers flag comments as spam. Thus, every Akismet user is a human moderator when marking something as spam. Most spammers try to work around this by changing their emails, but Akismet does analyze the URLs as well.

Occasionally Akismet algorithm seems to get picky on certain words, or take the the text/words on the email/URL as spam, even that there’s nothing really wrong. Also, Akismet does automatically pick up short comments (just one or couple of words) as spam.

I am guessing that no news means no resolution. Did Akismet respond?

I also asked Akismet for advice on their guidelines to avoid detection in the future (looking for general guidelines, not specifics on how to game/bypass their detection). I also made the point that I expect human moderators to judge the quality and value of my posts, as opposed to software/bots blocking me.

1: Usually you can add external JavaScripts to W3TC and minify them, but first you should think hard if you really need all those and only add the ones you need.

Also, if the scripts are big, it might be better not to serve the script locally, so check how long it takes to load them (e.g. with Firebug) and then decide if you leave them external or minify them to the local file (big file might be slower when server from your own server). If one uses CDN to server the minified files, then this is not an issue and all scripts should be added to combine and minify them.

I don’t know about the captcha, you’ll have to test and see. Well-coded scripts won’t be affected by minification. Poorly coded ones might break and cause errors.

2: “All Templates” is the default and “safe” way. Individual templates can be used if you know certain script is only needed on specific page. For example, if contact form uses script, that script is only needed on the page with the contact forms.

3: It’s hard to say, but since you listed so many JavaScript files, I’m guessing that’s part of the reason. Again, think carefully if you really need them all. Although, minifying them with “non-blocking” setting will help too.