Problems With Blog Comment Spam

Help! Would you please try to add a comment here, and let me know if you have any problems?

[Update] Thanks for the help — things seem to be working better now.

Flooded With Comment Spam

Over on the Contextures Blog, I’ve been flooded with spam comments. The Akismet plugin catches some of the comments, and puts them into the Spam list. However, there is still a long list of comments in the Moderation queue every day.

Most of those Moderation comments are spam, but I don’t want to accidentally delete any of the valid comments. I appreciate it when someone takes the time to add a comment, and don’t want to lose those.

I accidentally deleted one of Dick Kusleika’s comments yesterday, because something in his comment was on the “banned words” list. No, not his name – I had blocked “SEO” because of all the spam on that topic, and Dick’s blog is dailydoseofexcel.com.  Oops!

So, it takes a while to check through them, approving the real comments, and trashing the rest (carefully!)

Growmap Anti Spam Plugin

Today I installed the Growmap Anti Spam Plugin, which might prevent some of those fake comments from being posted.

It adds a check box below the comment form, and the comment is not accepted unless you check that box. That sounds easy enough, but sometimes things don’t work exactly as expected.

If you add a comment here, and have any problems, please let me know. ddalgleish AT contextures.com

Thanks!

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