I have long since turned on "word verification," yet there are spam comments trickling in at an alarming rate. While I'm slightly curious as to why this is happening, what I really want to know is how to get it to stop, and whether there's a way to get rid of these comments without going through the archives and deleting them one by one.
"what I really want to know is how to get it to stop"
ReplyDelete7 out of 10 naked teenage girls selling anime porn and cheap pharmaceuticals for medical problems you've never heard of agree:
Blog comment spam is a nasty problem plaguing everyone at the moment, and the solutions will have to come well above your pay grade level.
Do your best to ignore it until Blogger comes up with some solution.
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Personally, I'm curious how the bots get past the word verification.
One semi-solution some folks employ is to turn off comments on any post more than 2 or 3 weeks old, as the bots seem to target older posts to avoid immediate detection by humans.
ReplyDeleteHow is that done? Doesn't that just turn off comments for the whole blog?
ReplyDelete"How is that done? Doesn't that just turn off comments for the whole blog?"
ReplyDeleteI don't use Blogger, so I was just assuming you had that option.
In Typepad, you can turn off the comments to individual posts while leaving on comments to all other posts.
If you can't do that, it's back to the "ignore it" advice.
Of course, if you're a meth addict, after getting your apartment really, really clean, you can individually remove every spam comment on the blog...
actually, my comment wasn't spam. i really thought that photo was hawt. but, you know, whatever.
ReplyDeleteIf you change "comments" to "opinions" or any other word(s), it will probably help some.
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