SPAM ATTACK

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  advgrrls · Member · Jan 3, 2015 at 9:30 pm

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  I am getting spammed to death anything I can do? I have changed my password but can’t think of what else to do

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

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  timethief · Member · Jan 3, 2015 at 9:35 pm

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  Changing your password will have no effects on the amount of spam you receive. Making sure you moderate every comment and using the comment blacklist may reduce it.

  See here for comment blacklisting http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#comment-blacklist

  Also, do not put IP addresses in the blacklist. IP addresses are no longer unique, and you might end up blocking legitimate visitors. In fact for over a decade only about 30% of us have IPs that trace back to any individual computer. Also, all they would have to do is go to a wi-fi hot spot, or connect via a different ISP and they could get around that.

  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
  _Users must be registered and logged in to comment

  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.

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  advgrrls · Member · Jan 3, 2015 at 9:39 pm

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  thanks I do moderate all comments and will try to black list..I have never been “attacked” like this in over 4 years. Thanks for your input

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  timethief · Member · Jan 3, 2015 at 9:45 pm

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  If you approve a single spam comment on a post the original spammer will hammer that post and will sell the URL to other spammers and phishers who will do the same. if you approve comments with links in them the spammers will do the same thing.

  I am so picky about exactly comments I approve that I have posted a commenting policy. I am also keenly aware that approving dumb comments makes me and my blog look dumb and negatively affects page ranking and search positioning so my comments are clean. I have also blogged for many years and can spot pingback and trackback spam.