Drowning in Comment Spam

Drowning in Comment Spam

I don’t moderate my blog comments as often as I should, and unless a comment is from someone I’ve approved once before, a comment will hang in moderation purgatory until I get to it. Well … when I checked the comments tonight prior to writing a little something, I found around 750 comments awaiting moderation.

My jaw dropped.

Most of it is spam, of course—probably even all of them. But when I clicked over to the comment moderation page, the comments were so numerous, the page they populated so long, that my content management system couldn’t display them all for me. It stopped part way, meaning I had to find some other way to delete them because the mass delete option was no longer there.

Swear words were uttered.

So tonight, instead of writing up a post bemoaning all the sex and violence that I just read in a book called Tom Jones and sharing a super long book list I recently found, I’m sitting here deleting all those spam comments, 20 at a time.

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7 thoughts on “Drowning in Comment Spam”

  1. Yes, I’ve been noticing a big increase in spam from some feedback forms on some sites I have over the last month or so. Maybe 2-3 per day.

  3. Dear Sir and/or Madam:

    Just a note/email to tell you how me I/we enjoy your unique/wonderful blog and we’d like to take this opportunity to offer you your own personal chance to enroll in the Famous African Deposed Generals and Dictators Financial School, of Lagos, Nigeria. I/we hope you will take this unique/wonderful chance to learn the many secret ways that we can teach you to make millions of Dollars US via the web. Just send us/me your current USA bank account number and your date of birth and we will begin processing your application. No one will be turned down during this special enrollment period.
    My brother/father the General/Prime Minister welcomes you! FADGDFS

  4. JJ, it comes and goes in waves.

    Kat, lol, there’s no need. I made a game of it myself to please my OCD tendencies. 🙂

    H.E., 😛

  6. Umm, I just went to his front page and he seems to be stopping development, so maybe that’s no longer so good? I guess it also depends if you regularly update to the newer WordPress versions, which I haven’t. I’ve heard there’s also Akismet
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Akismet

  7. Estara, thanks! But when I finally upgraded WordPress, it already came with Akismet, and I activated it right away. 🙂

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