Why is spam arriving as comments?

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  jcarroll7 · Member · Apr 10, 2011 at 3:16 pm

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  Anyone else have a ton of spam going into the Pending Comments file? Anything I can do about it?

  Thanks.

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  airodyssey · Member · Apr 10, 2011 at 3:51 pm

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  Hi. In order to assist you, we need the URL of your blog, starting with http:// please. Thanks.

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  rivster · Member · Apr 10, 2011 at 4:20 pm

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  I’m having the same issue today. It’s awful.

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  timethief · Member · Apr 10, 2011 at 4:42 pm

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  Hi. In order to assist you, we need the URL of your blog, starting with http:// please. Thanks.

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  saztroglodhog · Member · Apr 10, 2011 at 4:55 pm

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  Yeah, just enjoy! haha

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  timethief · Member · Apr 10, 2011 at 4:59 pm

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  There are both robotic programs that generate spam comments and trackbacks and there are people who are paid by spammers to submit them. The bottom line is that you have the ability to moderate your comments and trackbacks and mark them as spam if they are spam so please do that.