I just don’t GET IT?
I have been absolutely inundated with spam comments the past two weeks. I used to get the very occasional spam comment – Akismet within WP caught most of them – now I get probably fifty or more a day in addition to the ones picked up by Aksimet. And since I have my comments set up to where I have to approve them the first time, they don’t actually POST, but I still get notified that I have stupid comments to moderate, and I’m getting a brazillion emails a day because of it. Ugh! I really don’t get it. Nobody ever clicks on those links, right? Why do they keep posting spam comments in blog comments? Is there ANY payoff? Is it just a ploy to annoy people to death?
Anyway. I need to decide whether or not to make it harder to comment here, by doing some sort of captcha thing or requiring people to register to comment or something. But I have no time to research that shit at the moment, so for right now, I just turned off the notification that someone has left a comment that I need to approve. So what that means for you is this: if you’re leaving me a comment for the first time, it probably won’t show up right away. No need to keep resubmitting your comment. I’ll check in a couple of times a day and see if there are actual, legitimate comments in the queue waiting to be posted, and I’ll approve any that aren’t stupid lame spam. Gah!
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Laura, also known as LaLaGirl, is the mother of a teenager and two young sets of twins. She's happily married, loves living in Colorado, and writes almost daily about married life, raising multiples, and parenting a child with autism.
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April 13th, 2006 at 9:04 am
Me too! I’m still not getting a ton, but it did go up this week. And they always hit my old entries…one in particular.
April 13th, 2006 at 10:51 am
I’ve been getting more too. It sucks. But at least WP just sends me a notification and I just let them sit there until I delete them. They don’t show up unless I approve them. So far, they’ve caught them all.
April 13th, 2006 at 4:37 pm
Seriously, WTF? The past few days have been crazy. I’m going to try to install Spam Karma 2 and see if that works. Those spambastards.