Why am I receiving so many SPAM comments in my SPAM queue on my dashboard???
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Hello,
Signed on today and noticed a huge increase in spam comments in queue from various scrambled gmail addresses from the uk and others of course, too many to list and it is constantly increasing like every 5-10 minutes. Is there something wrong with the SPAM?
This just started today and I’m spending more time permanently deleted comments than I intended because I was in the process of creating a blog post. I deleted 65 SPAM comments this morning and as soon as I went in to look at my settings, there were 17 more, then 5, and so. I just cleared it out but am afraid to log off because I don’t want to have to go through as many as I deleted earlier.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you.
joaynn510
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Know that the number of missed spam comments you report is actually a very low number. 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.
There is no such thing as eliminating all spam but Akismet works very well. Set up comment moderation, if you have not already done so, because allowing anonymous commenting on your blog is like putting out the welcome mat for spammers.
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
_Users must be registered and logged in to commentYou may not want to moderate comments but here’s a reality check. 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.
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