Spammers

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  reinkefj · Member · Jan 27, 2014 at 10:28 pm

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  Do you “kill” future comments from folks I mark as spam? From time to time, I see the same spammers using the same email to spam my comments place. It would be nice to know that you use this feedback to make their lives harder.

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  eurello · Staff · Jan 28, 2014 at 8:13 pm

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  Hi there,

  Yes, marking comments as spam “teaches” our spam-fighting program, Akismet, to recognize them as such. You can read more about this here:
  http://blog.akismet.com/2013/08/02/high-levels-of-spam-continue/

  Let me know if you have further questions!