Way too much spam
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I’ve neglected my blog for sometime. I’ve come back to notice over 1,000 spam comments that have made it through because spammers just throw up their links in the emails they provide, thereby circumventing the spam filter entirely.
First question: How do you bulk filter spam? I’m not going through 88 pages of comments just to click “mark as spam” through the bulk action. It seems pretty clear that all comments after my inactivity are spam.
Second question: How do you prevent this from happening? If I just make it so every comment needs to be approved before it is posted, then the spammers are still getting through because then I still need to manually throw their comments into the spam pile. Is there no way to set it so people cannot throw up links when providing their E-Mails to comment?
Thanks.
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38! I should be so lucky – try on hundreds lol :D but then again who cares? I don’t because Akismet is so accurate.
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. Spam comes in waves. There are human beings who get paid to post spam. There are robotic programs that post spam.
There is no such thing as eliminating all spam but Akismet works very well. For more information please take the time to read “5 things every blogger should know about spam” on this page Akismet: How it works http://akismet.com/how/
Note that the worst of all spam containing malware and viruses is not sent to us bloggers because if it were opened it would take down many blogs. 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.
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
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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My main site gets over 600 spam comments a day, of those between 75 and 200 end up in the spam queue – so I clean out the queue twice a day.
Like @TT I moderate everything – I do leave comments open on older Posts however.
Akismet is quite accurate – of recent I am getting one comment a day or so that gets past it – and yes I do wonder why it does not just throw out every hand bag URL or comments with 100 links in it –
You can also turn comments completely off if you are not going to be using the blog for a while – or leave one general Post or Page open in case someone does want to leave a real comment
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Thanks for the tips. Also, more spam comments trickle in, so I guess I don’t really know how many I’m getting a day. I’m just marking it as spam. These are spam comments I’ve noticed that have repeated for months now, so I’m not sure what’s up with Akismet.
Automatically closing comments on older posts seems like a good idea. There are two particular blog posts of mine that generate a lot of traffic (I’m guessing because there’s a lot of key search engine words to them) that accumulated the majority of spam comments. They’re outdated posts that I don’t want discussion upon, so maybe closing them will help.
But jeez, 600 spam comments a day? That are passing through the filter? That’s awful. My greatest worry when cleaning up all the spam was that I would miss a legitimate comment or something and would accidentally send it to the spam queue.
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Actually about 500 go straight to wherever Akismat puts real bad stuff – but that still leaves me with 100 to 150 each day in the spam queue – so not too bad – but still a bit of a pain – that’s why I check twice a day – makes it easier to just page down quickly
I have have virtually zero good comments end up in the spam queue – but I admin a blog for some friends and a couple of their friends ended up in the queue for some reason – but they get almost no spam on their site so it was easy to deal with
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