Comments are part of what validates writing a post. I think we all like to get comments. Perhaps it’s a boost to our egos.
But spam is just a pain.
I use Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin and still have spam slip through and some viable comments go to spam. Don’t really want to take the time to moderate comments. Made it so no comments are allowed on posts older than 30 days and on many posts where these spammers seem to go back to repeatedly. Yet they also show up on new posts as well.
I’m using Comment Love with a check box to, supposedly, prove you’re human. You are human aren’t you? Still I get spam, lately about 40 a day.
I don’t need background checks, reverse cell phone look up, people search or finders, advertising through back links on my site for free when they leave unintelligible comments with their link. I need to add their URLs to the blacklist.
Do I add the word verification/captcha again? Make it so only registered users can comment? Would you sign up in some way to be notified of my new posts? What do you do? I treasure your comments, really I do.
I don’t know what the deal is but I don’t hardly ever get any spam. 40 a day would be very discouraging.
I’m headed off to Idaho to see old Dad. Hopefully get over to to Jackson, WY and see the Tetons. Hadn’t been there in 10 years.
I will try to look at things in admin tomorrow. Maybe I can figure out how to get rid of spam gor you
If we signed up to be notified of posts, wouldn’t we still have to sign in to leave comments?
It’s a dilemma. It sounds like your spam is a couple of orders of magnitude worse than mine; I’ve gotten three or four spams this week.
I feel you pain….but 40??!!! That’s terrible. I get about 2 a day and some of them are just nasty. One I actually laughed and was going to put it in a post for people to read but I was so angry at the spam itself that I just deleted the stupid message.
You pop up on my dashboard and I ALWAYS have to check a box stating I’m human. It’s the American thing to do. And we do live in AZ so you should be able to ID us;)
I don’t have an answer for that one. I moderate comments. I wish I didn’t have to do it but it prevents malware and inappropriate material from popping up on my website. I had to get rid of that cool blogroll because I had malware popping up on my website on 3 separate instances. It’s hard enough to manage my own work let alone monitoring other blogs appearing on my site. So they went down for good. Do what you need to do:) But 40 spam notices a day is too much. I’ll read you no matter what:)
40 a day is a lot. I get notified of your new posts on Facebook. I guess I could just comment there.
I love your blog and would be happy to do whatever is needed to log in and read it….if me logging in would save you from sifting thru 40 spams…then so be it!
I do not know what the answer is for you. I hate, hate, hate word verification which is why I have taken it off my blog. I do view every single comment that comes through before it goes on the site, BUT I never get spam any more. I have said that all comments will be viewed before they are published so maybe this is enough to put the spammers off! Diane
I also view every comment but perhaps I don’t get as many as you and I certainly never got 40 spams a day although I did get some which is why I view the comments. I don’t find it a problem since I like to read them anyway. I just read them in email instead of on the blog itself. I still get one or two a week at most. It works for me. So sorry you are hving such trouble. I too also check the I am human box which I don’t mind. The double verification thing not so much.
I’m already registered and I follow all my blogs through Google Reader so don’t really need any additional notification. Sure do hate most of the word verification programs as they have gotten ridiculous with the way they show the words. If my first guess doesn’t go through, I usually just blow off the comment I was going to make as I read a lot of blogs and it is already tempting to not comment on those with word verification.
Ohmigoodness! 40+ per day. I get the occasional spam but not much. Like most everyone else, I’ll do whatever you want me to do, as long as I still get to read and leave comments on your blog.
I was hoping to see a button that could say that I was alien in nature.
The number of spams depends too on the number of visitors you get per day… but 40 a days seems a lot. With Google I hardly get any -only once in a while one or two- but I have only about 50 hits a day…
Spam is an absolute pain. I took off word verification a while ago and allowed folk to comment anonomously as well. But the spamnots found me. Luckily the Blogger spam filter picked most of them up but I still got the notification every time. I haven’t gone back to word verification cause a lot of people do struggle to comment with it on, but I have put back the fact that you have to be registered on Blogger or WordPress or whatever to be able to comment. One or two still get through but I can’t complain.