Users should never see them at all. They should not be in our Spam folders for us to have to delete.

Akismet deals with tens of millions of spam messages every day. If you need some reassurance about how well Akismet is doing its job on your site, click the Akismet Stats link in your site's Dashboard.

As with everything via WP, it's mostly free, so no big moan. It's just surprising that you can't stop "lista de emails" spam.

Am not a programmer but at some stage, can't there be a filter "if comment includes the string "lista de emails" then delete"

On the spam that Akismet catches it takes only seconds to click "empty spam" and you don't even have to click "empty spam" if you don't want to. Akismet will maintain comments it has caught for 15 days from the time they were received, and then it will delete the comment automatically.

If you get spam that slips by Akismet then mark it as spam (do not delete it) and over time Akismet will learn it's spam.

The vast and overwhelming majority of all so-called information on the internet is spam. Over 80% of all so-called comments submitted to .wordpress.com blogs every day are spam.

For more information please take the time to read "5 things every blogger should know about spam" on this page Akismet: How it works http://akismet.com/how/

What sense would it make _not_ to click "empty spam"? Then I have to go through a constantly growing pile of spam each time to find any legitimate comments.

Staff does not (usually) look at blogs hosted here, nor should they do so without a reason such as for technical assistance.

Staff interfering with which and what comment a wp.com user approves would be a big invasion of privacy. Take a moment to consider this aspect of staff arbitrarily removing comments from individual blogs.

Akismet is not a "Big Brother" which controls which comments are displayed on individual blogs. Nor would we want him (her? it? that?) to act that way!!!

...but I can't go through 76 blocked comments a day to find the legitimate comments

@gmcgath Generally speaking, you don't even need to. Akismet does a great job of catching spam in the Spam filter. If it's there, there's a very high probability that it is indeed spam. You can hit the "Empty Spam" button with confidence to empty spam immediately, or as tt said above, the spam folder will automatically delete spam older than 15 days. http://en.support.wordpress.com/unwanted-comments/

If you need some reassurance about how well Akismet is doing its job on your site, click the Akismet Stats link in your site's Dashboard.

And for the future, when you post in these forums, please give us the direct link to the WordPress.com site you need help with. Thanks!

Oh, and if staff actually decide to do this, please make an announcement about it. It's nice to let us know what's going on.

Maybe I should publish a scathing rant re: bloggers who post spam comments on their blogs. However, I hesitate to do that as because I once used the word stupid in a post on the same subject a a politically correct and very sensitive special snowflake threw a fit here in a forum thread.

We live in confused times. We adults see m to have forgotten that it's the reader that gives power to any words directed to them. Sticks and stones break bones but only a bonehead will embrace the words and idiot directs to them and then Boo Hoo!

That's an abuse of the system which encourages spammers and harms us all. I see nothing wrong if staff were to routinely delete such stuff with no warning. It's no different, really, than the way they strip out potentially harmful code. I don't know how to make the suggestion, but it ought to be something for them to consider.

However, he wouldn't keep doing what he's doing if he weren't getting through to several blogs. Why can't staff search for blogs that have accepted his comments and just purge them? Bloggers who accept such stuff are ruining this place for all of us.

I have witnessed so many blogs with spam comments posted on them that I could SCREAM! New bloggers are so desperate for comments that they are approving and posting spam.

The vast and overwhelming majority of all so-called information on the internet is spam and much of it is pornography? Over 80% of all so-called comments submitted to free hosted WordPress.com blogs every day is spam.

Over 80% of all so-called comments submitted to .wordpress.com blogs every day are spam. Akismet is sequestering the spam you point to. On the spam that Akismet catches it takes only seconds to scan the pages, remove any false positives, and click "empty spam".

You don't even have to click "empty spam" if you don't want to. Akismet will maintain comments it has caught for 15 days from the time they were received, and then it will delete the comment automatically.

If you get spam that slips by Akismet then mark it as spam (do not delete it) and over time Akismet will learn it's spam.

For more information please take the time to read "5 things every blogger should know about spam" on this page Akismet: How it works http://akismet.com/how/

If you have et up the blog for anonymous commenting that does not require an email address and/or website URL then do be sure to set up full comment moderation ie. "An administrator must always approve the comment" because anonymous commenting is bound to increase the amount of spam your blog will receive. http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#comment-moderation

For some reason WP refuses to block them.

WordPress needs to block spammer IP addresses, not just filter.

Hoping perhaps someone can recommend another spam blocker that's better than Akismet or which works with Akismet to delete spam based on keywords.

My (and others', judging from other posts) wanting to block comments from EVER reaching me based on keywords such as "Viagra" hopefully shows that I KNOW spammers use multiple IPs and email addresses. The blacklist feature doesn't do anything more than what Akismet does now -- marks it as spam, which I then have to check. I want spam deleted before it gets to me. I'm not a programmer, but why can't Akismet have that feature? Is there another plug-in that would work with Akismet to enable that? I want to delete anything with "lista de emails" in it before it even gets to my spam folder. Thank you.

Note: That spammer is using mulitple IPS and email addresses but you don't need to worry about this as Akismet catches them all. On the spam that Akismet catches it takes only seconds to click "empty spam" and you don't even have to click "empty spam" if you don't want to. Akismet will maintain comments it has caught for 15 days from the time they were received, and then it will delete the comment automatically.

If you get spam that slips by Akismet then mark it as spam (do not delete it) and over time Akismet will learn it's spam.

The vast and overwhelming majority of all so-called information on the internet is spam. Over 80% of all so-called comments submitted to .wordpress.com blogs every day are spam.

For more information please take the time to read "5 things every blogger should know about spam" on this page Akismet: How it works http://akismet.com/how/

99% of it wouldn't even arrive if I could only somehow keep anything with the phrase "lista de emails" from ever reaching me. Why can't we add a filter in Akismet that says to automatically delete anything with certain words? I also will never, ever be interested in any comment with the word "Viagra" in it. Thank you.

At what point is WordPress going to permanently block these, or is this somehow affiliated with WordPress?