website is being constantly flooded with spam comments

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  johnedowell · Member · Aug 1, 2022 at 5:58 pm

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  How can I stop the flood of spam messages? The site has over 370,000 spam comments?

  WP.com: Unknown
  Jetpack: Yes
  Correct account: Yes

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  supernovia · Staff · Aug 1, 2022 at 10:49 pm

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  Hi @johnedowell, there are a handful of spam filtering plugins out there. Sites hosted here on our service include Jetpack Anti Spam / Akismet, and it works great:

  Jetpack Akismet Anti-spam

  Or you can install a captcha or something similar. Check out some of the options here:
  https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/spam/

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  supernovia · Staff · Aug 1, 2022 at 10:49 pm

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  Oh, and I do want to note, too, if you just want to host your site here so we can take care of spam filtering, maintenance, security, and direct support, here are our options:
  https://wordpress.com/pricing

  We can help you get that imported if you’d like :)
  https://wordpress.com/support/import/

  Let us know if you have questions!