WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Increase in spam? http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/increase-in-spam WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Increase in spam? en Wed, 22 May 2013 01:05:00 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 thesacredpath on "Increase in spam?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/increase-in-spam#post-789491 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:48:27 +0000 thesacredpath 789491@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ This happens all the time. Spammers change tactics to get around the spam filter, the spam filters move to counter them and then they again change tactics. I just came out of 3 months of heavy spam on my site and a couple of client sites where we were seeing anywhere from 100 to 1200 per day with anywhere 5-20 per day not getting caught. Just mark them as spam so that Akismet can learn and start catching them. Now different sites I administer are getting hit hard.

]]> ismailimail on "Increase in spam?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/increase-in-spam#post-789480 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:42:25 +0000 ismailimail 789480@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I would think support should look into Akismet to identify the increase, particularly why are they skipping the queue.

Do you think there is a relevance to Christmas season?

]]> timethief on "Increase in spam?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/increase-in-spam#post-789410 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:59:44 +0000 timethief 789410@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Yes. The spam count goes up and down and now that the Christmas season is over the count is swelling again. SHRUG ... mark spam as spam and blog on. :)

]]> ismailimail on "Increase in spam?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/increase-in-spam#post-789402 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:55:09 +0000 ismailimail 789402@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Are others noticing an increase in spam comments showing up outside of spam queue? I am noticing several spam/comment emails showing up lately.

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