Blog Spammers?

[juststeven]

Hello,

Does your blog get spammers well when askiment gets it and marks it as spam you should edit the message with a message relating to the post so then you can accept them! This is not a solution for small blogs who have a lot of spam as that would make most of the comments fake. But a small blog with a little bit of spam then use it!

Thanks.

 

[David]

You probably shouldn't do that. Akismet uses several blog spam marking techniques, including IP, so basically, you are accepting the spammer's IP address and so any future comments under that IP or similarity will be accepted. It may backfire.

 

[Wolverine]

I wouldn't bother editing. That would be time wasting.

 

[Joshua Farrell]

I have yet to edit spam comments on The Moral Liberal, due to the fact that every single one of them does not relate to any single article that they try to comment on. So I leave the spam blocker on, for all intensive purposes.

 

[Pvcomputers]

You got to watch out where the spammers are comming from. Surly blog software has protection againist this.

 

[froggyboy604]

I just set my blogs to where I have to moderate each comment for spam, and askimet does a pretty good job at marking spam and moving is to the spam folder for me in WordPress.

I also heard having a captcha code plugin helps for reducing spam, but you end up making your readers less likely to comment.

 

[Pvcomputers]

captcha is awsome.

 

[Solidus]

I prefer to manually reject the post from being publicly seen. Once you do this, they can't post again. (If you use Wordpress).

 

[froggyboy604]

If you manually reject a double post because a commenter posted twice, could they still post if you reject one post, but accept the other to prevent duplicate comments?