So many spam comments

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    stephaniedrogers · Member ·

    I’ve been getting so many spam comments in the past few months. The majority of them seem to hit on just one particular post: http://acrownofdarkwater.com/2011/07/10/some-hot-day-in-july/

    I’ve had to change my settings to monitoring all comments — which is a pain when they come in almost daily sometimes.

    At one point it got so bad that I’ve started thinking about changing blog hosts — something I really really don’t want to do as I love WordPress and have used it for so many years.

    Is there anything to be done about this?

    Many thanks,
    Stephanie D. Rogers

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

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    jeremeylduvall · Member ·

    Hey Stephanie!

    Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I checked out a few of your comments, and it looks like Akismet is catching them as spam as shown under the History on the individual comment like this one:

    https://catgem.wordpress.com/wp-admin/comment.php?action=editcomment&c=1419#akismet-status

    To be clear, are these comments that you’re mentioning slipping by Aksimet so that you have to manually filter them? If so, are you marking them as spam or just clicking “Delete”? The former (marking them as spam) helps to train Akismet to catch them going forward.

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    stephaniedrogers · Member ·

    yes, these are slipping by Akismet — I’m having to manually mark them as Spam

    this is one of the ones I manually filtered: social media optimization services
    pmatampa.comx
    (email visible only to moderators and staff)
    107.155.80.193 Flagged as spam by catgem
    Submitted on 2014/09/23 at 3:31 am
    I’ll right away take hold of your rss feed as I can’t to find your email subscription hyperlink or newsletter service.
    Do you’ve any? Please allow me understand so that I may just subscribe.
    Thanks.

    I tag them as Spam first (hoping that it is training Akismet) and put them in Trash.

    Is there anything else I can do?

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    jeremeylduvall · Member ·

    Hey Stephanie,

    Consistently marking them as “spam” should help to resolve the issue. Another suggestion would be to use blacklists if a lot of the spam comments have a common string of text:

    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.

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