WordPress.com Forums » User Favorites: cmurphyphoto http://en.forums.wordpress.com/profile/ WordPress.com Forums » User Favorites: cmurphyphoto en Sun, 26 May 2013 09:28:51 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 chrisrudzki on "Spam - 42k comments" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/spam-42k-comments#post-669887 Fri, 12 Aug 2011 19:24:23 +0000 chrisrudzki 669887@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @cmurphyphoto:

I'm sorry for the trouble - that's certainly a lot of spam! It looks like you've already deleted the comments, so I don't have access to them to see what you were dealing with specifically.

However, I do have a couple general tips to help prevent this from happening in the future:

If a lot of the spam comments have a common string of text, I suggest adding that string to your blacklist:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#comment-blacklist

(You can use the comment author's name, IP address, web site, as well as the comment itself. Please make sure the string of text is not something contained in non-spam comments. For example, if you enter "press" as a blacklisted word, "WordPress" will match.)

Also, please be sure to mark spam comments as spam instead of just deleting them. Our Akismet anti-spam engine tries to learn from spam comments so as to be able to detect them in the future.

For more information about dealing with unwanted comments, visit:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/unwanted-comments/

]]> auxclass on "Spam - 42k comments" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/spam-42k-comments#post-669176 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 21:51:47 +0000 auxclass 669176@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ ~~TT - the forum does work in strange ways some days - TSP had almost all of his Posts go to spam for a few days - I had a few days that my stuff got went into spam for a while - took me a while to see what the symptoms were to even recognize it.

Have a nice day

]]> timethief on "Spam - 42k comments" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/spam-42k-comments#post-669093 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 20:00:06 +0000 timethief 669093@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ ~~auxclass
Well that's a peeve off for sure because when I posted the email address into another thread what happened is exactly what I stated above --- aaararraghh!

]]> cmurphyphoto on "Spam - 42k comments" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/spam-42k-comments#post-669092 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:59:43 +0000 cmurphyphoto 669092@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ OK, thanks a lot for your time!

]]> auxclass on "Spam - 42k comments" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/spam-42k-comments#post-669091 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:58:35 +0000 auxclass 669091@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Let's see if the bot likes my leaving the support email any better

Here’s the email address support@wordpress.com Be sure you include all details.

]]> cmurphyphoto on "Spam - 42k comments" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/spam-42k-comments#post-669090 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:58:12 +0000 cmurphyphoto 669090@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ OK, thanks a lot for your time!

]]> timethief on "Spam - 42k comments" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/spam-42k-comments#post-669082 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:54:32 +0000 timethief 669082@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Okay then you will have to provide the URL to Staff via email when they respond to this thread. I have tried posting the email address twice today and on the first occasion it was redacted and on the second occasion it was removed.

]]> cmurphyphoto on "Spam - 42k comments" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/spam-42k-comments#post-669080 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:53:18 +0000 cmurphyphoto 669080@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Should I post this under the other login? Do I need to post the link?

]]> cmurphyphoto on "Spam - 42k comments" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/spam-42k-comments#post-669078 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:52:18 +0000 cmurphyphoto 669078@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Yes, it is wordpress.com hosted blog

]]> timethief on "Spam - 42k comments" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/spam-42k-comments#post-669070 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:40:29 +0000 timethief 669070@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Oh, oh then we need to clarify whether or not it is a free blog being free hosted by WordPress.COM or if it's a self-hosted WordPress.ORG install. We provide support ONLY for free hosted WordPress.COM blogs on this forum. If this is actually about a WordPress.ORG install then we cannot help. It runs on different software and you have to post here > http://wordpress.ORG/support/

Please read this WordPress.COM versus WordPress.ORG

]]> cmurphyphoto on "Spam - 42k comments" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/spam-42k-comments#post-669068 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:37:44 +0000 cmurphyphoto 669068@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ The blog that was spammed is under another WP login. I didn't want to publicly post it because it is a university one.

]]> cmurphyphoto on "Spam - 42k comments" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/spam-42k-comments#post-669066 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:35:58 +0000 cmurphyphoto 669066@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ No, this blog is totally different under another WP login. I didn't want to publicly post it because it is a university one.

]]> timethief on "Spam - 42k comments" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/spam-42k-comments#post-669063 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:33:42 +0000 timethief 669063@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ EDIT: Or was the blog visibility "public" and then you changed it to "private" after this happened?

]]> timethief on "Spam - 42k comments" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/spam-42k-comments#post-669062 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:32:49 +0000 timethief 669062@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I assume your are referring to the blog linked to your username as you did not refer to another one or provide a link. What puzzles me is that it's a "private" blog. So apparently the URL has been "leaked". Or was the blog visibility "private" and then you changed it after this happened?

See here Settings > Discussion for default Discussion settings
Other comment settings
Automatically close comments on articles older than __days

See here for creating a comment blacklist.

]]> cmurphyphoto on "Spam - 42k comments" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/spam-42k-comments#post-669051 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:24:10 +0000 cmurphyphoto 669051@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Yes, for some reason this blog (I manage several at a university) seems to get hit all the time. Usually it is a few hundred. But I checked the timestamp and it was every minute.

I'd love to prevent this in the future (for obvious reasons...). Does Askimet delete comments are 30 days?

Thanks for both of your comments.

Catherine

]]> timethief on "Spam - 42k comments" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/spam-42k-comments#post-669048 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:19:24 +0000 timethief 669048@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @TSP
This is the all time highest number of for spam comments I have every heard of happening overnight.

]]> thesacredpath on "Spam - 42k comments" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/spam-42k-comments#post-669047 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:18:14 +0000 thesacredpath 669047@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Sadly you can't prevent it. Something like 97% of comments are spam. It sounds like you were hit by a overachieving bot and Akismet will get them.

]]> thesacredpath on "Spam - 42k comments" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/spam-42k-comments#post-669045 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:16:36 +0000 thesacredpath 669045@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ There should be an "empty spam" button that will delete all of them. It could take a while for them to all get deleted, so be patient. If you still get errors, then wait for staff to reply here.

And congratulations. You might have a record - or at least in my experience. I'll no longer complain when I wake up to 400+ in my spam queue.

]]> timethief on "Spam - 42k comments" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/spam-42k-comments#post-669040 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:10:14 +0000 timethief 669040@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I'm so sorry you have experienced this. I will flag this thread for Staff attention. Please be patient while waiting for them to sort this for you.

]]> cmurphyphoto on "Spam - 42k comments" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/spam-42k-comments#post-669038 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:07:25 +0000 cmurphyphoto 669038@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi - I woke up this morning to 42k spams comments in my spam folder. I am trying to delete them in bulk, but am getting a 503 error.

3 questions:

1. How can I do a bulk delete
2. How can I prevent this from happening again? Is there a bot protector?
3. Can WP.com restore a database?

thanks all!

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