Profiles with emojis go to spam?

[ethicalrevolution]

Quick summary

Whenever I comment on Mastodon on a post that has come via an Activity Pub-federated Wordpress post my comment goes to spam in Wordpress. The only difference I can see in my profile and others which don't go to spam is that my Mastodon profile name contains emojis.

Steps to reproduce

My Mastodon profile: https://climatejustice.social/@ethicalrevolution

If I comment on any post on any of three websites which use the AP plugin the comment goes to the spam in Wordpress comments.

Site owner impact

Fewer than 20% of the total website/platform users

Severity

Moderate

What other impact(s) does this issue have?

No response

If a workaround is available, please outline it here.

No response

[pfefferle]

What spam plugin do you use?

[ethicalrevolution]

Akismet

[pfefferle]

Then let's ping the Akismet folks.

[ethicalrevolution]

Ace ... Is that something I need to follow up on or do you mean you will do so?

[pfefferle]

☺️

I will see if I can ping the team internally!