Crap comments

Do you have Akismet or similar enabled? I find that Akismet cuts out about 99% of spam

Just remove the comments section. There are very, very few websites that comments bring anything positive to.

I do agree with Yukon...

I don't know how to do that, but I have a programmer who I work with that I am sure will do it for me or show me how to do it. I will have to check with him if I can get Skype working on my new computer.

Why not just go into Settings->Discussion and uncheck

Allow people to post comments on new articles

use akismat to get rid of spam..

Like UMS said above - just turn off commenting. I like to keep it on because of my blog, but it's nearly always completely off on the sites I build for others.

"Invisible CAPTCHA" style plugins can be quite effective. They use Javascript to validate the request, which will root out many bots.

If you are using CMS (WordPress, Joomla, Drupal etc..) and really want to use the comments (which is OK in many niches) then use the plugin called "CleanTalk". I think it's around $8 - $10 per year and really does the trick.

It doesn't require captcha or anything which is very user-friendly as well. And more importantly, it really does BLOCK the spam.

Some of my sites use to get 800 - 1200 spam comments per day (PR5 - PR6 blogs attract spammers). Now only 2-3 of them are actually getting through. Worth investment by any means.

So I followed Kevin's suggestion and deleted the whole damn comments file in WordPress, so i hope that works. I have seldom ever seen a true, non spam comment. I will do without them.

@Yukon, it is telling me there is no such comments.php call to action.

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get_header(); ?>

<div class="center_wrapper">
<div id="main-content">
<div class="left_front_column">

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<div <?php post_class(); ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">

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<h2 class="title"><a href="<?php echo get_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>

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<p class="meta"><span class="clock"></span><span class="date"><?php the_time(get_option('date_format')) ?></span><span class="posted"> <?php _e( 'Posted by ', 'Blackskyline' ); ?> <?php the_author() ?> <?php edit_post_link(__('Edit', 'Blackskyline' )); ?></span></p>
<!--Post content-->
<div class="entry">
<?php if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) { // check if the post has a Post Thumbnail assigned to it.
the_post_thumbnail();}?>
<?php the_content(); ?><div class="clearer">
</div>
<?php wp_link_pages( array( 'before' => '<div class="page-link">' . __( 'Pages:', 'Blackskyline' ), 'after' => '</div>' ) ); ?>

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<div class="clearer">
</div>
<?php if ( get_the_author_meta( 'description' ) ) : // If a user has filled out their description, show a bio on their entries ?>
<div id="entry-author-info">
<h2 title="<?php printf( __( 'About %s', 'Blackskyline' ), get_the_author() ); ?>"><?php printf( esc_attr__( 'About %s', 'Blackskyline' ), get_the_author() ); ?></h2>
<div id="author-avatar">
<?php echo get_avatar( get_the_author_meta( 'user_email' ), 60 ); ?>
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<div id="author-description">

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<div id="author-link">
<a href="<?php echo get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ); ?>" title="<?php printf( __( 'View all posts by %s', 'Blackskyline' ), get_the_author() ); ?>">
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<?php endif; ?>
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<div class="postfooter"><?php $tag = get_the_tags(); if (! has_tag()){ echo __( 'Tags: No tags', 'Blackskyline' ); } else { the_tags(__('Tags: ', ', ', 'Blackskyline')); } ?>

<br/><?php _e( 'Categories: ', 'Blackskyline' ); ?><?php the_category(', '); ?><br/>



<?php if (('open' == $post-> comment_status) && ('open' == $post->ping_status)) {
// Both Comments and Pings are open ?>
<?php _e( 'You can <a href="#respond">leave a response</a>, or <a href="<?php trackback_url(true); ?>" rel="trackback">trackback</a> from your own site.', 'Blackskyline') ?>

<?php } elseif (!('open' == $post-> comment_status) && ('open' == $post->ping_status)) {
// Only Pings are Open ?>
<?php _e( 'Responses are currently closed, but you can <a href="<?php trackback_url(true); ?> " rel="trackback">trackback</a> from your own site.', 'Blackskyline') ?>

<?php } elseif (('open' == $post-> comment_status) && !('open' == $post->ping_status)) {
// Comments are open, Pings are not ?>
<?php _e( 'You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.', 'Blackskyline') ?>

<?php } elseif (!('open' == $post-> comment_status) && !('open' == $post->ping_status)) {
// Neither Comments, nor Pings are open ?>
<?php _e( 'Both comments and pings are currently closed.', 'Blackskyline') ?>

<?php } ?>

</div>

<!--Post comments-->
<?php comments_template(); ?>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<?php endwhile; else: ?>
<p><?php _( 'Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.', 'Blackskyline')?></p>
<?php endif; ?>

</div>


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<?php get_footer(); ?>

Even though I deleted everything in that file, I still had 16 spam comments in my blog I deleted a minuye ago.

I have more problem with spam comments in Wordpress than on my Blogger blogs. I do love to get (real) comments, but that spam! I put Akismet on my Wordpress blog and have to see if it works.

But from the comments here I think it may.

Good thread!

Use Akismet.Its made for spam comments

i think blog comments are becoming a thing of the past, unfortunately.

You can keep comment option open but don't allow any other url in comments.

For a few years now whenever am creating a site, the first thing I do is disable the comment section completely.

You can do the same, having to deal with comment and moderation is another job entirely, if am not a seasoned blogger for a particular site I would say, to hell with the comments and write them all off and live happy forever after like the fairy tale stories.

Even after I removed the comment form, I still got nine comments in the next hour or two. I could not finnd any call to action in the single.php file though. If you can find it in the post above, please let me know.

Right now i have 79 comments. WTF

You should have Askimet activated or other useful plugin to get rid of those spammers!

Why don't you use captcha. My blog used to get flooded with spam comments.
I placed captcha and i got rid of the comments

Well, if you don't want to mess with the code to remove the comments, there is another way you can get rid of them without having to delete them all yourself. Install WP-Optimize.

In a couple of clicks, you can schedule it to run once a week, and it has the option to delete all spam comments and delete all unapproved comments. Make sure your Wordpress installation is set that all comments need approved before posting.

There you go. Once a week they will all be wiped out automatically.