WordPress.com Forums » Topic: spam issue http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/spam-issue WordPress.com Forums » Topic: spam issue en Tue, 21 May 2013 10:34:55 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 nubins on "spam issue" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/spam-issue#post-904715 Tue, 05 Jun 2012 17:03:30 +0000 nubins 904715@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ All of a sudden I am being over run with spam. Is there any reason for this? I am getting 20-30 a day and is there anyway I can stop it. They are all going to two post I have made. SR

]]> timethief on "spam issue" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/spam-issue#post-903647 Mon, 04 Jun 2012 17:38:52 +0000 timethief 903647@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Edit: "805 " was meant to be "80%"
Please read "5 things every blogger should know wbout spam" on this page > http://akismet.com/how/

]]> timethief on "spam issue" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/spam-issue#post-903646 Mon, 04 Jun 2012 17:37:15 +0000 timethief 903646@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Why on earth would you sacrifice a post? Over 805 of all so-called comments submitted to .wordpress.com blogs every day are spam. Akismet catches the spam for you. You quickly scan and "unspam" andy false positives and move on to your blogging.

]]> kevinfromcanada on "spam issue" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/spam-issue#post-903642 Mon, 04 Jun 2012 17:34:00 +0000 kevinfromcanada 903642@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Actually, last week Akismet informed that they had deleted my 100,000 spam comment. So I know there are a lot of them.

I also appreciate that the bots keep coming up with new work-arounds and it takes a while for Akismet to catch up -- I was just looking for a way to bridge the gap. I guess that I just sacrifice the post or patiently wait.

And while I am here, let me offer the thumbs up to Aksimet. I've only been blogging for three and a half years -- already they have saved me from more than 100,000 "delete" instructions.

]]> timethief on "spam issue" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/spam-issue#post-903628 Mon, 04 Jun 2012 17:27:22 +0000 timethief 903628@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ There is no such feature. The post is either public, private ot password protected and those are your only choices. If you were self hosting a WordPress.org install it would be common for your to have hundreds of spam comments and even thousands.

]]> kevinfromcanada on "spam issue" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/spam-issue#post-903595 Mon, 04 Jun 2012 16:52:52 +0000 kevinfromcanada 903595@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ The latest spam attack that Akismet has not yet caught up with is all directed at one post on my blog. Is there a way that I can temporarily put that post into holding off-line until Akismet has it figured out? I don't want to delete it permanently, but I am getting dozens of spam messages every day.

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