Spammer ‘astors’
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A user who calls himself “astors” has been spamming my blog for months now. He/She’s using the same mail address all the time which reads “(email visible only to moderators and staff)”. The comments usually consist of several links. No text.
Askimet recognizes his/her mails as spam. So that’s a good thing. Nevertheless I asked myself why these comments are not deleted automatically. It’s so obviously spam why do you want me to check Askimet all the time for these spam mails?
I know there have been several complaints about spams not showing up on askimet, but why are those cleary obvious spammers/spam mails not deleted automatically so that I needn’t have to deal with them all the time.
What about another option beside “comment moderation” and “blacklisting” (general options) where we can define (a list of) keywords which identify such comments and delete them automatically? Is there maybe already such an option available and I haven’t discoved it yet?
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There is no such option.
The danger of a ‘delete on sight’ is that you would never know what had mistakenly been caught. I’m not sure if this is still true – it was in the early days of WP – but go to the moderation boxes and enter one space then press Return on your keyboard. What that did was catch everything. Now imagine someone accidentally put a space – we would be asked why they were deleted and could not be got back. It’s a powerful one-way tool that could cause more problems than it solves.
I do see what you are saying but leaving Akismet to it is probably best.
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Thanks for your answer. :)
It’s a powerful one-way tool that could cause more problems than it solves.
I see your point. Would mean a lot of support work. So I understand why you won’t consider it.
Although you clearly rejected it, what about some kind of interface where the blog owner has to set up special rules for the mails to be deleted. Like
Username contains ….
Username is …
Comment contains …Something similar to thunderbird filters:
http://teamtutorials.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/mozilla-thunderbird-filter-domains-3.jpgIn this way you could guide an unexperienced user and reduce the risk of accidentally deleting wanted messages whereas you would ease the pain of the experienced ones. ;)
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We are actually looking at this – Andy mentioned it 2 days ago between us so don’t think it’s being ignored :)
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