Spam comments
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Hi, I am getting a lot of spam comments on several posts of mine since yesterday. Has my account been hacked or what is the reason for this increased activity?
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Hello @ashex08
We are really sorry for the trouble you are facing.Here are some options you can try:
1. You can use the Before A Comment Appears settings to manually approve comments on your blog/site.To do that go to https://wordsofashex.wordpress.com/wp-admin/options-discussion.php, and check “Comment must be manually approved ” option. Scroll at the very bottom and click Save Changes
.Read this support guide for more information on that:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#before-a-comment-appears2. You can also, blacklist comments. More info about it can be found here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#comment-blacklist
Go here: https://wordsofashex.wordpress.com/wp-admin/options-discussion.php, to blacklist comments.
3. Also, if you have turned on everything and you are just deleting spam comments make sure that you mark the comments as spam and not just delete it.
The Akismet anti-spam engine tries to learn from the pattern of comments that are marked as spam.
As stated by staff here: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/spam-174?replies=9#post-2942233
Hope this helps 🙂
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I’ve never had problems with spam, but today I began getting multiple spam comments on multiple posts — on both my blogs. Clearly, something is going on.
My settings prevent them from getting to my blog, but it’s annoying to have to spend time dealing with them. I hope it’s temporary.
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I am still getting some spam comments..although lesser frequency than the other day. Is it some kind of a hack that comments passed through the spam filters set in place by wordpress?
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