How can comments for other's blogs, end up on my blog?
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Why is it that comments made on my blog, seem to be for other blogs, not mine? How can people comment on one blog and the comment end up on my blog? I have to delete most comments to my blog, since they were intended for someone else’s posts and it does not feel fair. It also makes me wonder if any of the comments that seem to be for my posts, are really so?
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Are you sure you are not referring to pingbacks? See here http://en.support.wordpress.com/search/pingback/
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I’m 90% sure you’re talking about spam, but unless you give us a link to the comments in question, who knows?
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No, I am not talking about pingbacks. I am a very pretty mum who does not have time to read other people’s blogs, so I have never referred to anyone else’s blog, nor put in any links to anything! I am not that computer literate nor iPad literate.
As for spam. Well, as an example I can give me having written a post about my son’s autism and me opening up my blog and finding 20 comments on the brilliant dance video I posted in my post. I should add that I have never ever added any video of any sort, nor do I intend to do so. Especially not a dance video when I talk about something completely different. I have one conversation going and the comments are in the twilight zone.
And some comments are comments to other people’s comments but NONE of the comments pertain to my blog or the post, they are attached to.
Sorry, I can’t send you any links to the comments since I am not that iPad literate.
I guess I will just have to continue to delete the comments? -
Freudian slip there? No, I am not a pretty mum, but I am a BUZY mum who do not read other people’s blogs since I have no time for it.
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As raincoaster said what you are describing sounds like spam comments but without links to them we cannot be sure of that.
You may not want to moderate comments but here’s a reality check. The vast and overwhelming majority of all so-called information on the internet is spam. Over 80% of all so-called comments submitted to .wordpress.com blogs every day are spam.
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.
There is no such thing as eliminating all spam but Akismet works very well. Set up comment moderation, if you have not already done so, because allowing anonymous commenting on your blog is like putting out the welcome mat for spammers.
This page > Settings > Discussion is where you set up defaults for comments. http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/
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
And I moderate comments too. Comment moderation http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#comment-moderation
Discussion Settings
Other comment settings
_Comment author must fill out name and e-mail
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Thank you Timethief for all your helpful suggestions. I have tried to make some alterations, but it is not easy to understand a lot of it, when your native language is not English. I had my husband, who is an American and a technical writer/computer expert look at all the options etc. But he did not understand all the options either! I think we both thought that spam was things containing grown up advertisements etc. Not comments saying how nice my blog is and that they have decided to do RSS-feed and so forth. Akismet catches these comments as spam on my site but I guess it is all about their address then? Who sent it? Not at all what they say?
We have just made the alterations, so I guess tomorrow will be a very interesting day, to see if all the “stupid” comments disappear?! And I guess no matter how nice the message sounds, I must empty spam if the address looks shady?! -
Please understand that we Volunteers cannot access your blog and examine these pending “comments”. If we could view them or if you would simply copy and paste them here then we could tell you in a matter of seconds whether or not they are spam.
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