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Christopher Finke

Director of Keyword Blacklists at Automattic

@cfinke joined Jun 2007

chrisfinke.com github.com/cfinke Slack: @Christopher Finke - Akismet

    Bio

    I am an engineer at Automattic working on Akismet. I like to code.

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    CODE
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    Core Contributor '15 Plugin Developer
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    Documentation Contributor '17
    COMMUNITY
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    bbPress Contributor '20

    Current Job

    Director of Keyword Blacklists
    Present
    Automattic

    Recent impact

    Score weights high-impact work (commits, releases, approved translations, props) at 3x routine activity.

    Last 30 days
    5contributions
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    Last 90 days
    8contributions
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    Last 12 months
    13contributions
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    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 13 releases
    • 6.7
    • 6.1
    • 5.7
    • 5.6
    • 4.6
    • 4.4
    • 4.2
    • 4.1
    • 4.0
    • 3.9
    • 3.6
    • 3.5
    • 3.2

    Contributions

    Type
    June 2026
    Jun 01 Mon · 16:26
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Automatic deletion of old spam folder?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Akismet automatically deletes spam comments once they’re 15 days old.
    May 2026
    May 29 Fri · 21:11
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Auto-delete spam immediately?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    There's no setting for that, but you can change the value with a filter, if…
    May 21 Thu · 15:57
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Whitelist specific email addresses?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Not technically, but if you mark the comments as "not spam", that will teach Akismet…
    May 18 Mon · 20:14
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Does spam folder auto-clear after some time?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Akismet should auto-delete comments from the spam folder after 15 days. If that's not happening,…
    May 15 Fri · 15:58
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Spam folder auto-delete time?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Akismet deletes spam comments once they're 15 days old.
    May 13 Wed · 16:29
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Regular reader’s comments keep getting flagged as spam, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Can you email us at support@akismet.com with your site URL and the reader's username or…
    May 11 Mon · 15:46
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Auto-delete spam folder?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Akismet automatically deletes spam older than 15 days.
    May 07 Thu · 15:05
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Question about the spam statistics delay, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Stats update about once per day, so you should see them change soon.
    March 2026
    Mar 11 Wed · 01:14
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to ActivyPub comments flagged as spam when they should not be, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi John, What site is this happening on? If you're not comfortable posting the URL…
    October 2025
    Oct 20 Mon · 19:26
    Forums med
    Posted a reply to Way to hide the API key on our sites?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Closing due to lack of response. @damonmaldonado, if you still need help with this, let…

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