Spams increase to thousands a day
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I also noticed a sneaky tactic too, sparked by something I read in the forums. Spammers know that many who moderate set it to “automatically allow after first accepted post” ..so their first post is a bland “nice blog” type of comment, knowing it looks and appears innocent……until the wave of spam that follows through afterwards already pre-allowed. This prompted me to moderate EVERY comment, no matter if the person was allowed before or not. I also delete all bland “nice blog” type comments if the URL looks suspicious.
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Those should be getting caught. The “hello” or “nice blog” posts are generally spam, especially if they have no URL: those are test posts for the spam to come.
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I politely point you to the “Mark all as…” links at the bottom of the Moderation page along with the Bulk Moderate Button. If you’re marking them all one by one, your missing that link.
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I wonder…if you set your commenting to the tightest security possible if you can cut way back on the comment spam…I have done that since day one and my spam is very very low. Even back during that big spike on the Askimet graph in March of 2007 I only got like 3 or 4 spam comments from some online casino/gambling sites.
Of course my blog’s not in the top 100,000 so that could count for something :)
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One question, is the same happening at your mirror site http://my.donews.com/zqyin/?
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This helps with finding valid spam in the Akismet spam bin:
http://engtech.wordpress.com/tools/wordpress/akismet-auntie-spam/I’ve been trying turning off comments on old posts… that’s brought my daily spam down from 1000+ to a few hundred.
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hunterseeker, my mirror site is OK, nearly no spam.
egtech, I have done as you did: turing off comments on old posts. Now, my blog is not affected by spams. The daily spams down to near zero.
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Just a note on this topic. Turning off comments on old posts doesn’t always work. And it may hurt your blog. Comment spammers can slam a post within seconds of publishing.
To speed up the process of checking for false/positives in Akismet, use the search on the Akismet panel. Type in the keyword(s), one at a time, most commonly found on your blog and in your blog posts. For example, on my blog it’s wordpress, plugins, lorelle, help, tips, advice, and spam. I also include variations as people commonly misspell “word press” and “plug-ins” and my name. So I hunt for “press” and “plug”, though the latter takes longer to go through as that seems to be a sex word. ;-)
I get thousands a day caught by Akismet, and rarely do I have to mess around with many that get through. If a group does, then I use the Mass Edit Mode to quickly remove them. Check the checkbox next to NAME on the Mass Edit Mode panel to check ALL the boxes, then scroll down the list to uncheck any good comments. Click “MARK AS SPAM” and go onto the next page. It’s fast and easy.
Marking these as spam helps Akismet learn, and when it learns, we all benefit and our comment spam problems become less as Akismet works harder. Don’t delete the comment spam in your comments. Delete them after Akismet marks them as comment spam.
And I adore Engtech’s Greasemonkey Comment Spam script. It’s brilliant and saves me a lot of time. I highly recommend it.
Comment spam comes from humans, and from machines, all following incoming links. If your blog is really that unpopular, check with who is linking to you. They might be candy for comment spammers, leading them right to you. That’s how comment spammers have found many of my blogs, just following from a popular blog to a lessor one and then adding them to their list.
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