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Why has AKISMET stopped filtering some of my spam comments? I’m getting around 500 a day!
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It’s possible the you have approved some spam comments and doing that means your blog becomes a spam magnet.
Mark all spam as spam and do not delete it! Akismet is a learning engine it will learn over time to sequester these comments that you mark as spam.
Spamming is big money business. I’ve blogged for over 8 years now and I know spam is not going to go away ever. 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/
On the spam that Akismet catches that appears in your spam filter 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.
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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Thanks so much for your help!
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It’s possible the you have approved some spam comments and doing that means your blog becomes a spam magnet.
Mark all spam as spam and do not delete it! Akismet is a learning engine it will learn over time to sequester these comments that you mark as spam.
Spamming is big money business. I’ve blogged for over 8 years now and I know spam is not going to go away ever. 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/
On the spam that Akismet catches that appears in your spam filter 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.
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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