How do I reduce spam
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Looking for additional ways to reduce spam. Getting hit with a lot lately (300+ in a couple of days.) Blog is not that active.
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Do you have Akismet enabled? If so, is it set to strict?’
Check by going to
greenbaggins.wordpress.com/wp-admin/options-discussion.php
then make sure “Strict: silently discard the worst and most pervasive spam.” is selected under Akismet anti-spam strictness.
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Akismet is embedded into every free hosted WordPress.COM blog and cannot be disabled.
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. Spam comes in waves. There are human beings who get paid to post spam. There are robotic programs that post spam.
There is no such thing as eliminating all spam but Akismet works very well. For more information please take the time to read “5 things every blogger should know about spam” on this page Akismet: How it works http://akismet.com/how/
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. You can use the Bulk Edit function (check boxes on each comment) to delete less than all the spam comments or to Un-spam more than one comment at a time. Check the box at the comment then choose the proper bulk edit command.
Akismet is very accurate so trust Akismet. 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/
Comment moderation http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#comment-moderation
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I am so happy that WP catches spam like it does, but I am wondering something specific: I post twice a week–one is more like an “article,” and the other is just sharing something I find amusing–which is often on YouTube. It is those posts (the ones with a yt embed in them) that gets me tons of spam. Why is that?
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Interesting. I wonder if maybe the spammers are looking at posts that use a particular tag and hitting those especially. “YouTube” or “Video” might be the issue there.
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