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14 years ago

Originally Posted by mikebrooks

So, should I assume that my blog is doing well when I get hundreds of these robot spam comments to aprrove every day?

I love some of these comments. "this really helped me on my college project". Really?

I take it you don't like me posting on your site about how well it has helped me out in college. FINE!

Yeah, you must be popular if all of the college kids are digging your site.

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fazal5555

14 years ago

Originally Posted by mikebrooks

So, should I assume that my blog is doing well when I get hundreds of these robot spam comments to aprrove every day?

I love some of these comments. "this really helped me on my college project". Really?

why don't you check the summary of your traffic? i get the same comments, i think it's a great sign since your site starts getting interest and exposure. but these spam comments are so funny, they are pretty much the same...haha

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impact-productions

14 years ago

I get loads of them as well.

It means that your blog is well indexed for profitable keywords that the automated robots feel are worthy of posting on. That's a good thing!

So long as you've got decent spam protection (and that's one thing Wordpress excels with), your blog is set up for a real future. The next thing is try and get some legitimate comments up there.

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mikebrooks

14 years ago

Good points. This post has really helped me in my career.

couldn't help myself.

Originally Posted by impact-productions

I get loads of them as well.

It means that your blog is well indexed for profitable keywords that the automated robots feel are worthy of posting on. That's a good thing!

So long as you've got decent spam protection (and that's one thing Wordpress excels with), your blog is set up for a real future. The next thing is try and get some legitimate comments up there.

Thom

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DNChamp

14 years ago

I get avg about 25 or so a day and I wish really I could stop them from posting since its a hasslle to delete permantley all the damn time. In WP what is the feature to try and weave some of these off?

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mikebrooks

14 years ago

I believe it is Askimet. But you simply go into your dashboard and then go to SETTINGS then DISCUSSION. There you can select for a moderator to approve. this will stop them from being posted but you still get the emails.

the problem with the plugins is these nice folks who create these systems of spamming the blogs are always working to get around it. But if you make them to you have to moderate them first, they don't ever get through.

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I get avg about 25 or so a day and I wish really I could stop them from posting since its a hasslle to delete permantley all the damn time. In WP what is the feature to try and weave some of these off?

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GameVoid

14 years ago

Someone has been spamming the hell out of my blog advertising traffic avalanche.

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luckyone2day

14 years ago

sounds like it would be very irratating to have to delete all that spam comments

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mikebrooks

14 years ago

It is. But it's the price of my fame I suppose.

It is worth sifting through for the good comments. Getting folks to comment on the blog really helps and then you get to sort through even more spam emails.

I know there are good plugins to deal with this. If anyone knows of any of the Wordpress spam comment filtering pluggins and has had good success, please let us know.

I've been too lazy about doing it. I am so used to getting them. I have a lot of different blogs.

I will test some out and report back if I find a good one. I would hate to have real comments filtered out, though.

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sounds like it would be very irratating to have to delete all that spam comments

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billspaced

14 years ago

Originally Posted by mikebrooks

It is. But it's the price of my fame I suppose.

It is worth sifting through for the good comments. Getting folks to comment on the blog really helps and then you get to sort through even more spam emails.

I know there are good plugins to deal with this. If anyone knows of any of the Wordpress spam comment filtering pluggins and has had good success, please let us know.

I've been too lazy about doing it. I am so used to getting them. I have a lot of different blogs.

I will test some out and report back if I find a good one. I would hate to have real comments filtered out, though.

Akismet is the one I use. I do get some comments marked, though, that I do not consider SPAM, so once every week or so I quickly scan those marked as SPAM and deal with them accordingly.

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Sheryl Polomka

14 years ago

I have such a good Wordpress theme - at least that's what everyone keeps telling me in their comments. They all want my wordpress theme and are all going to recommend it to their friends

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Kamran 14 years ago

My spammer friends want to show me how to increase my traffic
BTW, I have noticed that if you keep marking them as spam, instead of deleting them, after some time they stop coming. Possibly because wordpress bans the IP from commenting
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thebitbotdotcom

14 years ago

I always ban the IP addresses. Helps tremendously.

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CDarklock

14 years ago

Originally Posted by mikebrooks

So, should I assume that my blog is doing well when I get hundreds of these robot spam comments to aprrove every day?

I have a blog I've literally never touched since installing WP, and it's been getting a spam comment on the "Hello World" post every 43 minutes for about four months now.

Seriously. That's not an average. I get a spam comment on it every 43 minutes exactly. I get a notification that the comment needs moderation, and 43 minutes later - I get another one!

So I've stopped even paying attention at this point.

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AllanandDawn

14 years ago

Askimet is what we use. It doesn't get them all but it sure cuts down the volume.

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sbucciarel

Banned 14 years ago

wp spam free is another good plugin that catches a lot of comment spam

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