Sorry folks but due to a vast quantity of spam comments from the same 3 people (or maybe it's one person with 3 profiles), I have had to turn on comment moderation. If this keeps up I will have to break down and also turn on word verification. It appears to be coming from the middle east or Asia and it's pissing me off. I have blocked 2 of them on google plus but I don't know if that also blocks them on blogger as well. I also left very angry comments on their google plus and/or blog telling them to stay off my blog.
Now I face the daunting task of going all the way back to 2006 to clean up whatever else has shown up on old posts from these predators.
Anyone else experiencing an upswing in spam?
Yup, this is the first time I have had a spammer on my blog. Good luck with it.
ReplyDeleteThanks. I have resisted comment moderation for awhile but it's getting out of hand. The spam stopped for a long time after I turned off anonymous comments but now it's back. Like I said it seems to be coming from Asia or the Middle East. I will leave it on for awhile and hopefully they will stop coming around.
DeleteSome time back I began getting spam comments and for awhile I just deleted it, until it multiplied to a point that I could not stand it and had to resort to a verification box on my blog.
ReplyDeleteBut I've been so lacking in motivation this summer that I haven't been active as a blogger in several months. I keep hoping that this malaise will pass and my enthusiasm along with my motivation will return. :(
So glad to see you back! I missed you!!!! I can't make myself do the word verif box....yet....
DeleteHi JoJo,
ReplyDeleteIt gets bloody frustrating. I don't blame you for putting comment moderation on. It's just outrageous that a few idiots can be such a pain in the ass.
You may remember that I had about ten repeat spam comments on one post a few weeks back.
Take care and I hope this comment is okay! :)
Gary
Yes I do remember that. It seems to go in waves. I'm hoping to shut it off by the end of the summer but I know those predators can be pretty tenacious and come back. I actually went through about 15,800 comments going back to 2006 and found quite a few buried in old posts too.
DeleteThose jackasses. I hate that. Sorry, JoJo. I haven't wanted to look back on old posts. They're likely spamming away, but not on my more recent ones. Though, now that I wrote that, I'll probably need to take drastic measures too. Hope they go away forever.
ReplyDeleteIn 2012 when I did my first A-Z, I decided to see if I had any spam comments on old posts and I discovered that there were over 200 comments on several posts. 8 were the original, legit comments and the rest were spam. I spent hours cleaning them out. Never occurred to me it'd happen again but it did. They are evil.
DeleteI find if I don't post for a few weeks I get spam, for some reason they go for the older posts I have no idea why they do this or how this helps any business they have.
ReplyDeleteWell I try to post every other day and even at that they still hit me. They are so evil, those people. Spammers and hackers.
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