Where do I report illegal content spam?
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I have received a comment from an unfamiliar address. When I hit its url I am directed to an imeem page containing disturbing links. By title alone these links are not places I would want to go. Is there a protocol here?
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In the comments section of your dashboard, at the far right of the line with the comment, simply click “spam” and it will be marked as spam. It may take a couple times before Akismet learns, but it will learn and from then on the comments will go directly to the spam filter.
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Cheers for that. Already done. I’m keen to report this in a more useful way, if that’s possible, because the content is very dark. Am I just being naive, or is there some actual followup to grossly indecent content?
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You would have to contact their ISP and lodge a complaint to see if it is against their terms of service. There is a lot of objectionable content on the web, some of it legal and some of it not.
Do a DNS lookup using one of the “whois” services. There should be a listing for reporting abuse.
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If the problem is at imeem you need to contact them. I don’t recall an easy way to do that when I last looked there. But as tsp says, let akismet know.
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