spam vs actual comments
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An old post of mine (2012) has suddenly received 13 new “comments” All have product names, E.g. Home Water Filter, Two blade Band Saw, followed by a Youtube video source promoting the product. The third line has an individual email address, most originating from a German company (arcor.de, gmx.de). Some but not all of the comments are related to the post, and many feature fractured syntax. The comments began soon after I began publicizing my blog on my Twitter account. Is this a common problem, or am I “blessed” with a new form of spam?
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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.
Spamming is big business and spam comes in waves. There are human beings who get paid to post spam. There are robotic programs that post spam. Sometimes an increase in spam can mean that you approved a spam comment and now the spammers are hammering your blog. Other times they simply find a new way to escape being noticed as spam.
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
I also use this setting:
2. Hold a comment in the queue if it contains _1_ or more links – A lot of spam comments includes a large number of hyperlinks. The default setting here is 2 but you can make this higher or lower. If you set this to 0, all comments will be held in moderation, which would be the same as checking An administrator must always approve the comment in the previous area. http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#comment-moderation
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
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No one with usernames like the ones you posted is a legitimate commenter. No one needs to post any links at all in any comments submitted to your blog. Anyone who is doing that and advertising their stuff on your blog need to feel the boot of being marked as a spammer because that’s exactly what they are.
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