How Do You Treat Spam Comments?
Posted by Madhav Tripathi | Posted in Blogging | Posted on 12-08-2009
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I get everyday many new Spam comments, and problem with me is that I don’t know what to do with these Spam comments and how can I get rid of them. I hate spam so much but I am helpless on my blog. Only I can view Spam comments and delete.
Mostly spammars irritate me, they send everyday new Spam with fresh contents.
From last one week one spammar is rocking on my blog, he/she sends almost every two hour one new Spam comment, and everyday two days he/she changes comments style, So I knew spammars are also creative.
I never approve any spam, I am not 100% right but sometime I approve by locality or kind of post.
Spammars know it their comments are not going to approved but still they leave Spam comments do you wonder why?
I think they believe if I would not approve their comments but I will visit their links; when I started blogging sure I visited some of Spam links but now I never visit any of Spam link.
Some of Spam links left me in dilemma when I see a semi Spam comment.
If one people is not talking about my post any only leaving his Spam links and giving his service description I never approve.
Sometime people tell about their service in comment and leave their website link if the link is related to my content of post as if I missed to add some of services.
99% of Spam comments are about sex and Viagra.
I try to to block these spammars IP address but it is not effective at all.
When I started blogging, some of spam comments I got and I deleted all sapm comments on the spot but now I leave them in Spam box for automatically get deleted after a few days.
I think some of spammars use some kind of software to leave comment on my blog because I don’t think they always visit my blog to leave a Spam comment.
Written by Madhav Tripathi - Visit WebsiteMadhav Tripathi is main author of TechShali, he writes on Social media, technology, software etc.
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I don’t receive too many comments to begin with. So, fighting spam is never a problem for me. They always have something funny to say, so, I let them post.
Are you using the Akismet spam plugin for Wordpress?
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We get spammed in our email accounts, then we create our blogs and the blog spammers find us there. Yes, it is aggravating at times.
A few of my Wordpress self hosted blog sites were really being beat to death by spammers wanting to get backlinks to their ppc sites and akismet was not stopping them all. Installing the Defensio Plugin has stopped virtually ALL the spam. If using it for personal use, it is free and you just need the api key from them to get it going.
Oh, sorry, I got so carried away agreeing with you and talking about a solution, I forgot to tell you that all you need to do is go to your wordpress dashboard and delete them…. BUT if you will install Defensio, that will handle the majority of these pesky, irritating spammer comments.
@Manu I think now you have got used to spam comments, but for me it is a new thing, I also will be used.
Hi @Jennifer thank you so much, I am using Akismet plugin, it is working very well and it always it send spam comments into spam box but I hate spam in spam box too. I am looking for any idea to ban spammars IP address.
Install the Askimet plugin for Wordpress, it’ll help tons!
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