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Spam and More Spam

Apr 16

Posted by Mrs. Mecomber in Wordpress, blogs | 9 Comments

Wow. In FOUR DAYS, this is how much comment spam I’ve gotten for this blog. And I’m only halfway through the fourth day!

Unbelievable, really. There were 57 pages of comment spam! There is no way I could have time to go through them all. I really wish these bots could be destroyed. Askimet grabs the spam so the comments are not automatically published, but I still have them in my comment admin page, where I have to delete them… wow. Disgusting.

I installed the plugin Bad Behavior, to reduce some of this clutter. I hope it works. Comment spam can bring a blog down by overloading it with too many requests, causing the server to crash. Jerks.

Tags: Akismet, Bad Behavior, plugins, spam

Akismet Plugin Bug Fixed

Sep 3

Posted by Mrs. Mecomber in Wordpress | Comments off

That was a speedy update! Earlier, I blogged about the problems I was having with Akismet. I had update to the latest version (2.1.7) but a bug disabled the plugin on one of my blogs, and for my other blogs, I could no longer “Delete All.”

The guys in Development rolled out a quick fix. Get your latest Akismet (updated to 2.1.8 at this writing) by going here.

In some upcoming posts, I’m going to address a way I learned to fight comment spam. Akismet is great from keeping it from my posts, but I still have to sort through hundreds– sometimes thousands– of spam comments per DAY, for deletion. I’d very much rather research my own diet pill reviews, thank you very much– not have them spammed to me by the hundreds. I’m still in the “testing” mode, but I’ve already seen excellent results. I’ll have more later.

Tags: Akismet