Spam not being deleted

[HTMLBasicTutor]

1. You aren't supposed to let people register? I didn't even know there was a way to screen registrants & even if I did, how would I know a good user from a spam one? Please do tell.

You can set it up that people can comment without registering. It can also setup to moderate all comments.

2. I started to put their e-mail addys on the blacklist, but you & I both know they just register a new one, so I don't see how that is going to help.

You can put IP addresses in the blacklist. e.g. Someone from a certain IP is bombing your comments. Click their IP over on the left under their name while in the Pending screen and it will select all the pending comments for that IP and refresh the screen with just the comments from that IP. Select all, bulk spam can them.

You can also put domain names in the blacklist. e.g. they are spamming from different IPs but promoting the same website. In this instance you can still search the pending comments by domain name. Just like the IP search, screen refreshes, select all, spam can.

3. Yes I know how to delete the spam, I'm just saying with the amount I had in there, it took a while. I thought there'd be a faster way.

Once you put something in the blacklist (be it email address, IP or domain name) future comments with anything on the blacklist go straight to Spam. You can go to the Spam screen, click delete Spam and all the comments in the spam are removed permanently.

The other options are:
-ban an IP or IP range. As mentioned previously this could make it so legit people can't get to your site at all.

-put a captcha and annoy your legit readers that can't read the captcha and just leave.

-Those signup using (fill in name) are equally annoying as far as I'm concerned. I don't surf logged into anything and I'm not going to signup up for yet another service just to comment on your blog. You get more comments when someone does it spontaneously. Plus if the service is down that just adds to the PIA factor of leaving a comment.

-use a spam plugin and slow down your blog. There have been reports that Akismet uses crowd sourcing and spam cans some legit commenters (much like banning the IP via the .htaccess file). The GrowMap Anti-Spambot Plugin claims to be a better alternative but the additional plugin they recommend gave me false positives so I don't use either.

I really don't see these anti spam plugins being any less work than moderating the comments yourself. You still have to go through the spam screen (it the plugin dumps them there instead of just deleting them) and cruise the comments looking for legit comments that got designated as spam if you want to build your readership.

[ep2012]

Already know you can moderate comments (I have that set on all my blogs), you talked about moderating registrations which is different.

Anyway, thanks

Take care


Michelle

[infinity79]

Hi,

I think this is a new forum (since I last looked that is), so I'm excited to FINALLY be able to get some WP questions answered.

Ok, so I recently found one of my blogs has accumulated almost 300 posts of spam. I can't delete them all at once b/c there may be clean posts in there, so I have to do this page by page.

But when I go to delete the users who wrote the spam & then on the next page it has the default "delete all posts associated from this user", I do that & the spam posts written by them don't disappear.

What am I not doing right, or is this a bug?

Thanks


Michelle

I suppose you should first apply a Not spam to all the comments that are not spam. That would make them move to the pending folder. Then, simply hit Empty Spam and that's it.

Further more, if you don't want to get automatic comments in your spam folder, simply try installing NoSpamNX plugin. It works just perfect.