spam increase

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  rubberechoes · Member · Mar 4, 2013 at 3:01 pm

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  hi there – i have had this account for maybe 2-3 years and could count on one hand the amount of spam messages that have got through – up until about a month or two ago when i am getting four or so a day that get through the akismet net that i then have to go through and delete as spam.
  Is there any reason for this – my fault or otherwise, and more importantly, is there anything i can do? thanks – jake

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Mar 4, 2013 at 4:52 pm

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  Sorry to hear you’ve had an increase in spam lately.

  If a lot of the spam comments have a common string of text, I suggest adding that string to your blacklist:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#comment-blacklist

  You can also blacklist a 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.

  Also, please mark those comments as spam instead of just deleting. Our Akismet anti-spam engine tries to learn from a pattern of the comments that are marked as spam.

  For more information about dealing with unwanted comments, visit:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/unwanted-comments/