Unwanted spam comments
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Please, WordPress, could you reduce the spam comments that are getting through the Akismet filter. There are between 300 and 400 spam comments per day on my blog Varldsinbordeskriget.
Gautic 01The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Akismet is good – however when a blog has a lot of spam comments showing up it is usually because the blogger has approved some vile spam in the past, nothing attracts spammers like spam already on a blog. I have looked at your blog and all the comments I saw were spam. you need to mark them as Spam – don’t delete – mark as spam.
Also set your comments to require moderation to stop spam getting posted
Dashboard >> Settings >> Discussion >> Require comments to be moderated
when you approve spam comments you make life harder for everyone since Akismet looks at what you approved and approves it for me, then I need to deal with extra spam
If you keep on approving spam comments at some point the Terms of service group will have a chat with you about the content of your blog
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Thank you for your reply. I still receive around 100 spam comments per day although I have followed advise and ticked on “Users must be registered and logged in to comment”. It hasn’t worked so far.
Gautic 01
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@gautic01 Unfortunately, as auxclass has said, it does appear that you have approved comments that are spam, such as in this post: http://varldsinbordeskriget.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/westward-march-of-civilization/#comments
That will draw even more spammers to your site.
First of all, please read these resources to educate yourself to recognize spam comments:
5 things every blogger should know about spam: http://akismet.com/how/#gs2
http://en.support.wordpress.com/unwanted-comments/
Afterwards, please go back through your approved comments and mark the posted spam comments as spam to remove them.
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