I just found out that my Akismet WordPress plugin has been eliminating some valid comments on my blog by “hard-delete” instead of a “soft-delete”.
I cannot believe this. I just lost over 30 comments some of which may have been some good comments. 
So, I now cannot get to those supposedly blocked “spam” comments – they do not exist in the DB tables. I just found that out today. So, had to swiftly deactivate/uninstall it and install another one, ”SpamViewer”.
Hope this one works better.
