Comments on: How To Beat WordPress Spam

By: Sean@Waste Disposal Bournemouth

Sean@Waste Disposal Bournemouth — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 09:16:41 +0000

Every blog must have some moderation surely – how else can you prevent people posting offensive comments?

By: Jason@Skip Hire Plymouth

Jason@Skip Hire Plymouth — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:00:33 +0000

I get lots of email spam which I don’t bother reading – the whole lot is deleted. What I don’t understand is why do spammers persist in an exercise that is basically a waste of everyone’s time? Surely the majority of people do as I do, so I don’t see how it can be a productive exercise.

By: Oscar

Oscar — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:31:22 +0000

I won’t do the Disabling comments completely suggestion. How can you keep a lively discussion of you will disable the comments?

By: Cindy

Cindy — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:12:07 +0000

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By: Fera

Fera — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:19:01 +0000

Hi I have a free blogs hosting site Blogs Pages and I get a flood attacks ,is there any plugin to prevent flood spam ?

By: John

John — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:08:05 +0000

I have the “old commenters” box checked in my options, but one commenter frequently ends up in my spam and moderation queue anyway.

My interpretation is that it means that all first-time commenters get moderated, but second/fifth/twentyfifth time commenters can still get moderated.

I’d like a way to truly pre-approve an email address so that this doesn’t happen to my readers.

By: Matt Ellsworth

Matt Ellsworth — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:17:06 +0000

we get about 100 spam comments per day on this blog alone. We have enabled a honeypot plugin (projecthoneypot.org) as well as we keep a blacklist of ips – and send them to a redirect when they try to access any site we run – that however is made by hand and not automated unfortunately.

We of course use askimet which catches a bunch – but its still annoying.

By: Gadgets

Gadgets — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:57:38 +0000

I base my moderation decisions on Akismet’s “suggestions” . I find it more easy to use that other solutions. And it worked really nice until now. Hope it will not disappoint me.

By: Armen

Armen — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 02:18:56 +0000

Nice, brief, but useful post. I think I’ll head over and try out recaptcha to help cut down the work Akismet has to do.

Thanks!

By: Diana13

Diana13 — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:56:38 +0000

Thanks for visiting my blog.
My blog is still very young, but after a few spam, I’ve installed today akismet, and it caught allready 23 spam comments.