Spam comments 100 per day?

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  worldofagdollsblog · Member · Oct 30, 2020 at 2:32 pm

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  Hi WP team,

  Lately, I’ve gotten a spam comment over 100 times a day, almost everyday for the past few weeks. The comment reads, “Muchas gracias. ?Como puedo iniciar sesion?” which translates to “Thank you very much. How can I log in?”

  I have tried to block this user so my spam doesn’t fill up as quickly, but this spammer changes their email and IP address often and blocking doesn’t really help.

  I even sent the comment that was being replied to back to moderation, but that did not help. Is there any way to lessen the amount of spam comments I’ve been getting?

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

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Oct 30, 2020 at 9:06 pm

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  I see the comments in your spam sub-section.

  Is that where they’re going originally, or are they winding up as a live and approved comment or a pending comment?

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  worldofagdollsblog · Member · Oct 30, 2020 at 9:24 pm

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  They are automatically being marked as spam.

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  worldofagdollsblog · Member · Oct 30, 2020 at 9:24 pm

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  They are automatically being marked as spam.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Oct 30, 2020 at 9:42 pm

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  Ok that’s good, that means the anti-spam system is working, that’s where it puts spam when it finds it. :)

  Items in there will be automatically cleared after 15 days.

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  worldofagdollsblog · Member · Oct 30, 2020 at 9:51 pm

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  Thank you. So, is there no way to block these comments from littering the spam queue?

  I ask because I often get comments that are not spam, and those comments get buried amongst the 100s of “Muchas Gracias” comments.

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  fstat · Staff · Oct 31, 2020 at 7:27 am

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  Hi there,

  You cannot automatically remove those comments from the spam queue as that’s the reason of that queue in the first place.

  You can however filter them out and then mass delete them. Then you’ll be left with the rest to check. Here’s how to do that:

  1. Go to your spam queue in WP-Admin (https://buildabearsfurever.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit-comments.php?comment_status=spam)

  2. In the search box enter a common string that appears in those spam messages (e.g. “Muchas gracias”) and hit Search.

  3. Select them all and choose “Delete Permanently” from the Bulk Actions menu.

  Here are a couple of screenshots to make things easier:

  

  

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  worldofagdollsblog · Member · Oct 31, 2020 at 2:58 pm

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  Thank you. I tried that and it looks like that should work well.
  I appreciate everyone’s responses to this matter.

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  fstat · Staff · Oct 31, 2020 at 5:45 pm

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  You’re welcome :)