Comment spam, en masse
Comment spam has, unfortunately, been a part of blogging for me pretty much from the start. It was the reason I changed the wordpress with it’s easier comment administration interface.
Lately however, it has become extreme. Yesterday I received 541 pieces of comment spam! If that is not extreme I don’t know what is, especially for a site with maybe 100-200 unique hits a day, the majorite of whom are viewing one page.
The high number of comment spam has also highlighted another problem. I have all new comments (from people who haven’t commented before) go into the moderation queue where I then delete them before they turn up on my page. Loading a page with 515 comments (I had deleted some during the day yesterday) takes a looooooooong time. In fact it takes so long that the Textile 2 plugin I use for formatting my entries and comments times out… I actually have to turn off the plugin to delete all the comment spam.
I guess it’s about time I start thinking about upgrading Wordpress and looking into comment spam plugins.
June 25th, 2006 at 6:03 pm
You probably won’t get this with all the other spam coming in but give Akismet a try. Comes with the newest Wordpress. Just need to get a API key from wordpress.com i think. It’s been working great for me. Very few get through and no false positives yet. I probably would have turned comments off if it wasn’t for Akismet.