excessive comment spam

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  lonesomelotusyoga · Member · Mar 22, 2014 at 11:13 pm

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  I’m suddenly getting buried in comment spam – thousands per day. Quite a few don’t get picked up by the filter and wind up as comments. I’m willing to pay for stronger protection but I can’t make sense of the azkimet instructions I find.

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Mar 25, 2014 at 3:19 pm

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  Hi there!

  Sorry about the trouble, and thanks for reporting the issue.

  If a lot of the spam comments have a common string of text, I suggest adding that string to your blacklist:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#comment-blacklist

  You can use the comment author’s name, IP address, web site, as well as the comment itself. Please make sure the word is not something contained in non-spam comments. For example, if you enter “press” as a blacklisted word, “WordPress” will match.

  Also, please mark those comments as spam instead of just deleting. Our Akismet anti-spam engine tries to learn from a pattern of the comments that are marked as spam.

  For more information about dealing with unwanted comments, visit:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/unwanted-comments/

  Let me know if you have any additional questions!