Comments on: WordPress Discussion Settings Can Reduce Comment Spam

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:24:40 +0000

It seems that this post about spam has attracted the most spammers. Comments on this post are now closed.

By: manu@indian dancer

manu@indian dancer — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:57:18 +0000

Spam in blogs is a form of spamdexing. It is done by automatically posting random comments or promoting commercial services to blogs, wikis, guest books, or other publicly accessible online discussion boards. Any web application that accepts and displays hyperlinks submitted by visitors may be a target.

By: cool games

cool games — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:12:59 +0000

Uhh, for me that would be double spam, besides filling up my wp page it would also fill my inbox :S i certainly would not like that, but instead just go to my account and manually mark the comments as spam…

By: Rick

Rick — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:52:04 +0000

This is a very informative post. I got many spam comments on my blog. Manually delete those comments makes me crazy.

By: Christian

Christian — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:40:20 +0000

I started a blog when I studied abroad in Japan for a year, to keep my family and friends aware of what I was doing. After I got home, I stopped touching it. For literally YEARS since, I have had comment spam show up sporadically. It’s really nonsensical.

By: camcorder taschen

camcorder taschen — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:24:14 +0000

Comment Spam is really a problem. I have a wordpress blog that I use to work on themes. This blog not even has a own domain but somehow get spam comments every day. However, I have moderation turned on but that is not enough to avoid it.

By: Make Up Store

Make Up Store — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:45:45 +0000

Very useful information. I get tons of spam on my blog, this should help out a lot!

By: Chicago Signs

Chicago Signs — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:34:20 +0000

I prefer to moderate my comments manually as well, but that may be because I don’t really get that many comments. Blacklisting the IPs is a good idea but my understanding is that most spam comes from different IPs since it’s usually different people.

By: Frank Lynch

Frank Lynch — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:38:18 +0000

I wasn’t aware there were settings for this at first, but after configuring it i feel really relaxed, it really works, to me, this settings really minus the spam comments, and tools like Askimet delete them deeply.

By: Norton Antivirus Blog

Norton Antivirus Blog — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:28:36 +0000

Very useful post. I prefered manual moderation, but it takes too much time…