WordPress.com Forums » Topic: The spam checker on my blog does not erase the spam messages. It times out. http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/the-spam-checker-on-my-blog-does-not-erase-the-spam-messages-it-times-out WordPress.com Forums » Topic: The spam checker on my blog does not erase the spam messages. It times out. en Tue, 21 May 2013 15:53:48 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 pbunch on "The spam checker on my blog does not erase the spam messages. It times out." http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/the-spam-checker-on-my-blog-does-not-erase-the-spam-messages-it-times-out#post-1093402 Wed, 12 Dec 2012 19:27:16 +0000 pbunch 1093402@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks. I will try to see if there is a pattern to it.

]]> dllh on "The spam checker on my blog does not erase the spam messages. It times out." http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/the-spam-checker-on-my-blog-does-not-erase-the-spam-messages-it-times-out#post-1093324 Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:46:29 +0000 dllh 1093324@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ This sounds like intermittent network latency to me. If the behavior occurred only when you were deleting a great many spams, then it could be timeouts as a result of slow processing, but intermittency makes me suspect the network instead. If you can detect a pattern to the behavior, we may be able to dig a little further, but failing that, I don't know that there's much we can do without more info.

]]> pbunch on "The spam checker on my blog does not erase the spam messages. It times out." http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/the-spam-checker-on-my-blog-does-not-erase-the-spam-messages-it-times-out#post-1093116 Wed, 12 Dec 2012 15:34:13 +0000 pbunch 1093116@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ It is sporadic and has only started recently.

]]> dllh on "The spam checker on my blog does not erase the spam messages. It times out." http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/the-spam-checker-on-my-blog-does-not-erase-the-spam-messages-it-times-out#post-1093105 Wed, 12 Dec 2012 15:24:25 +0000 dllh 1093105@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Do you experience this consistently or only when there are many spam comments?

]]> pbunch on "The spam checker on my blog does not erase the spam messages. It times out." http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/the-spam-checker-on-my-blog-does-not-erase-the-spam-messages-it-times-out#post-1093084 Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:58:42 +0000 pbunch 1093084@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ On the dashboard under comments I click Spam.
On the resulting Comments page i do one of two things.
I mark all of the spam comments and used the bulk item choice "Delete permanently." OR
I click the Empty Spam Button.
I get the following message:
>The connection was reset

The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.

The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments.

If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network
connection.
If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure
that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.<

I can load other pages rapidly and these operations function properly at times.

]]> dllh on "The spam checker on my blog does not erase the spam messages. It times out." http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/the-spam-checker-on-my-blog-does-not-erase-the-spam-messages-it-times-out#post-1093061 Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:21:39 +0000 dllh 1093061@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi. Can you clarify what you mean when you say that it times out? What steps are you following to try to erase the spam messages?

I imagine you're loading the spam comments and pressing the "Empty Spam" button, but I'd be grateful for confirmation or correction of that assumption. Thanks!

]]> pbunch on "The spam checker on my blog does not erase the spam messages. It times out." http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/the-spam-checker-on-my-blog-does-not-erase-the-spam-messages-it-times-out#post-1093057 Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:10:08 +0000 pbunch 1093057@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Actually the blog is http://climateplanningpolicy.wordpress.com

]]> pbunch on "The spam checker on my blog does not erase the spam messages. It times out." http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/the-spam-checker-on-my-blog-does-not-erase-the-spam-messages-it-times-out#post-1093052 Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:07:17 +0000 pbunch 1093052@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ The spam checker on my blog does not erase the spam messages. It times out.

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