Comments on: Cleanup Time — Spam Filter Free Day

By: eddie

eddie — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 23:38:58 +0000

well i ended up with DELETE FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_approved = 0 SQL command launched directly =))) this took like 0.5s =)))

By: eddie

eddie — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 23:34:32 +0000

hey, i am just figting the same problem right now… i have 9000 of spam from last year when i didn’t touch the blog… you can change the 20 to 200 for example… i tried 500, 2000 but failed with that numbers…

in wp-admin/edit-comments.php find this line and change 20 to whatever you’d like…

$comments_per_page = apply_filters(‘comments_per_page’, 20, $comment_status);

please note, that it’s very memory and cpu intensive and extreme values will probably fail… the firefox almost hangs, but that’s not a problem… the problem will probably be the server’s Request-URI Too Large

The requested URL’s length exceeds the capacity limit for this server.

this isn’t the best solution but helps me now a bit =)

By: Claire

Claire — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:44:21 +0000

Wow, that is a lot of spam in one day. I get about 100 a day on my flagship blog…and that is enough to drive me crazy. But I also find that askimet catches a lot of real commenters…i go through them all just in case…I think its more so the people with links to their name that are not their actal name, but have actually left a meanful comment, silly by the blogger because they are adding free content to the blog!

By: webspy.jp

webspy.jp — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:54:06 +0000

The problem of akismet is that it is not that smart for non-English spams. For example, I am using it for Japanese blogs, but it will catch ledigimate comments and ignore spams some times.

Maybe Captcha is still better for me.

By: Sriki

Sriki — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:40:15 +0000

Using Captcha would be a good option sice Akismet sometimes catches real commenters as spam.

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:36:29 +0000

I notice that WP gets a lot of false positives. It totally destroys interaction as far as I’m concerned. From my experience I would rather use Drupal.

By: MoviesGuy

MoviesGuy — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:50:29 +0000

hey man!
i use this plugin http://sw-guide.de/wordpress/plugins/math-comment-spam-protection/
It works very well, the all spamers suck out
Try it ;)

By: astronaut food

astronaut food — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:52:24 +0000

yup.. akismet still work anyhow, its still easy to see which is a spam or not for they usually just post with a nonsense web link. they can’t even make a real post. so.. either you upload something to protect your site or just visit the comment section once a week to delete them.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 03:58:51 +0000

Akismet saves me a lot of time and I usually only check and approval comments once a week because the spam filter has filter out most of it already.

As long as the commenter post useful comments, I leave the comment on and I would send them an email to let them know that they are welcome to post more on my blog, thus providing more contents for viewers.

By: Navier

Navier — Wed, 28 May 2008 18:04:06 +0000

Akismet is great, but can sometimes be wrong at its results. For example, a competitor of your website could enter spam into the spam box, then put your website in the “URL” box. If they spam much, the URL gets blocked automatically , so you cannot truly post in comments anymore. They make ur URL attribute to spam.

Good thing I contacted akismet and had them put my URL on no-spam, because this is what people have been doing to me!