Blocking countries
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I’ve been discovered by other countries and I am being spammed to death by email. Please add a plug-in to block countries.
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That’s not going to happen. The vast and overwhelming majority of “information” on the internet is spam. Over 80% of the comments submitted to WordPress.COM blogs every day are spam. Read http://docs.akismet.com/general/spam-facts/ There is no such thing as eliminating all spam but Akismet works very well. You can set up comment moderation and Akismet will take care of the spam.
This page > Settings > Discussion is where you set up defaults for comments.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#comment-moderationSee here for comment blacklisting http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#comment-blacklist
Also, do not put IP addresses in the blacklist. IP addresses are no longer unique, and you might end up blocking legitimate visitors. In fact for over a decade only about 30% of us have IPs that trace back to any individual computer. Also, all they would have to do is go to a wi-fi hot spot, or connect via a different ISP and they could get around that.
Aksimet is a learning engine. If you get spam that slips by Akismet then mark it as spam (do not delete it) and over time Akismet will learn it’s spam. On the spam that Akismet catches on it takes only seconds to click “empty spam” and you don’t even have to click “empty spam” if you don’t want to. Akismet will maintain comments it has caught for 30 days from the time they were received, and then it will delete the comment automatically.
I reduce spam by using this setting:
3. Automatically close comments on articles older than __ days – This setting can be used to have comments closed on articles that are X days old. As an example, if you only want articles to accept comments for 30 days you would check the box and type 30 into the text field. http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#other-comment-settings
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I’ve been discovered by other countries and I am being spammed to death by email.
You do not need to post your email address on your blog because that is like throwing down a welcome mat to spammers. You can create a Page https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ and embed a contact form on it. https://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/
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