New Spam Farms / Akismet Learning / Comment Blacklist Working ?

  • oliverdsw · Member ·

    Hello,

    It’s too bad that there is still a problem with spam these days. Sure, most of the crap doesn’t come through and gets stuck in the moderation folder. BUT it’s a real pain to browse through like 100-300 comments to see if they are really spam. I clear it every day, so I’m wondering why Akismet doesn’t learn about this.

    Today nearly all spam came from
    5.188.211.170
    46.161.14.99

    And had terms like insurance, marketing etc in the name field.
    If I enter these words in my comment blacklist, the corresponding spam still gets into my moderation folder and is not blocked automatically. Is there a known issue with this ? When I enter something in the blacklist, I expect it to disappear forever – and not to look though all the stuff again (in the moderation folder).

    Is there a way to block Ip’s or Ip ranges like the ones above forever ?

    Greetings

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

  • justjennifer · Member ·

    Please see Staff’s reply in the thread you posted earlier to: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/alot-of-spam-comments?replies=13#post-2947944

    Please mark spam as spam so that Akismet learns.

    Regardless, I’ve tagged this thread for Staff attention.

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    BUT it’s a real pain to browse through like 100-300 comments to see if they are really spam.

    I don’t see that many comments a day on your site. Do you mean you browse the Spam folder for spam?

    If something is in the spam folder it means we’ve already blocked it. That’s what the spam folder is for. If the spam is landing in the spam folder, as it is doing from what I can see, it means the spam filter is working the way it should.

  • oliverdsw · Member ·

    I don’t see that many comments a day on your site. Do you mean you browse the Spam folder for spam?

    Yes, when I browse in the spam folder.

    If something is in the spam folder it means we’ve already blocked it. That’s what the spam folder is for. If the spam is landing in the spam folder, as it is doing from what I can see, it means the spam filter is working the way it should.

    Hmm… I thought that the most rigid spam would be deleted automatically, so we as the users will never see it anywhere. This should be true since Akismet blocked 221.000 spam comments on my site, and I definitely didn’t browse to all of them to see if they are really spam. At least I think so…

    I thought that everything that lands in the spam folder is labelled as POSSIBLE spam, so you could one again check on it. Maybe Akismet could be tuned to be a little bit stricter, so that at least the OBVIOUS spam is automatically absorbed into the abyss.

  • kikiorleans · Member ·

    I’ve had the same problem for the past two days. Amount of spam from the above mentioned two IP addresses is increasing, but I both marked them as spam and added the IP addresses to the comment blacklist, which is working fine.

  • justjennifer · Member ·

    You only need to mark these as spam if they have found their way to your Pending approval folder. If they are in the Spam folder, Akismet is already doing its job. Those comments will be deleted automatically in 30 days or you can hit the Empty Spam button to immediately delete them.

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