comment spam – Journal of PlanetMike / Tips and tricks to get technology to work for you, by Michael Boyd Clark Tue, 21 May 2019 17:07:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 40216741 Comment Spam Increase This Week /2008/04/18/comment-spam-increase-this-week/ Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:21:03 +0000 http://www.planetmike.com/?p=719 Has anyone else noticed a large increase in the amount of comment spam that Akismet is missing this week? I’ve tagged and deleted more comment spam in the past week than I have in the past 6 months. I would guess across all of my WordPress sites, I’m manually tagging 10 messages a day. That is a huge increase. Are the spammers simply attacking at a higher rate? Or is Akismet not as effective as it used to be? 7b1d91231a87fb75e0054e886a0dea57

And why can’t Akismet learn that a comment in the format of: “eight words, all lowercase, all at least 7 letters long, a link inside an anchor tag, then the close tag, then a URL” is spam?

A setting you can make to help under WordPress 2.5: Go to the Settings tab, then the Discussion sub-tab. Under “Comment Moderation” have a “1” for “Hold a comment in the queue if it contains __ or more links.”

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