Why is more spam slipping through your filter than usual?
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You used to catch all the spam that came to my blog. Lately, it seems several comments slip through. What’s up? (Yes, I do approve all comments before posting. But you did your job so well, I seldom had a problem. Are you not “patrolling” my blog comments for spam like you used to?
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Hi Verla,
Sorry about the trouble, and thanks for reporting the issue!
If a lot of the spam comments have a common string of text, I suggest adding that string to your blacklist:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#comment-blacklist
You can use the comment author’s name, IP address, web site, as well as the comment itself. Please make sure the word is not something contained in non-spam comments. For example, if you enter “press” as a blacklisted word, “WordPress” will match.
Also, please mark those comments as spam instead of just deleting. Our Akismet anti-spam engine tries to learn from a pattern of the comments that are marked as spam.
We have some additional info here if you’re interested:
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