Comment Spamming

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  birminghamcityfansforum · Member · Jul 21, 2011 at 8:32 am

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  Hello,

  I have had my blog now for about 2 months or so and just recently i have been getting my comments attacked by spam.. i get on average now about 50 to 100 spam comments a day and it is just a waste of my time…

  What can i do as i don’t see a way of me blocking them so i don’t get repeated attacks.

  i have the filter set so everything needs my approval

  Kind Regards

  ESONEULB

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jul 21, 2011 at 9:00 am

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  Are they being caught by the spam filter?

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  birminghamcityfansforum · Member · Jul 21, 2011 at 9:13 am

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  yes they are and i just delete them, but i have to read them all to see if any genuine ones are sent.. the volume is growing day by day..

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jul 21, 2011 at 9:27 am

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  Well, when you get to 400-500 a day, you’ll be half way to the peaks I see on one of my client’s sites. About every month and a half I go through a spam blitz and see 300 to 500 a day on my site for perhaps a week or so.

  As long as Akismet is catching them then that is the important thing. As you get more used to things, you will find that you can scan a page in about two seconds and catch any that aren’t spam. I know it’s a pain, but that is part of life online.

  As far as blocking them, from my experience they rotate IP addresses continuously and do the same with the “email” addresses they use (which many times are links, not email addresses), and they do the same thing with the website links they leave and with the usernames. That makes it nearly impossible to block them. And they know all the normal tricks to block them and the work around those things. Luckily the spam filters are still smarter than they are.

  Hang in there, it your attach is like mine are, in a week it will be greatly reduced. Then in a month or two they will hit again. They are constantly changing tactics.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jul 21, 2011 at 9:28 am

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  Excuse the typos. I need to go to bed.

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  birminghamcityfansforum · Member · Jul 21, 2011 at 9:46 am

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  Were are they coming from??

  Can’t wordpress just ban them etc.

  We should have an option to report them so all the spamming data is collected and monitored and then banned from wordpress.

  thanks for you help..