blogs getting junkmail!

BEAT

I just logged into my blog and there were: 108 comments!
all of them were spam!
all 108 comments were the same stuff you get in your junk mail folder,
ads for pharm.drugs and porn ad stuff like that...

anyone know why this happened or is it normal?

Matthewthebig

I'm getting the same thing

use the spminator plugin.

it gets most of them

Rabies

It is going on for a few weeks now.
Pain in the arse

Sparky

i use the spaminator plugin, only to receive 20emails a day on how it spaminated a spammer.

you can pre-mod comments aswell, but the amount of crap, to do with poker, drugs, sexpills, holidays

CuLT

I'm surprised Wordpress doesn't use some sort of kaptcha system for comments.

Stops the spambots dead in their tracks.

rsynnott

CuLT wrote:

I'm surprised Wordpress doesn't use some sort of kaptcha system for comments.

Stops the spambots dead in their tracks.

One is available as a plugin. Captchas are a bit horrible tho.

billy the squid

That spaminator has been sending me dozens of Emails for the past week. I don't really use my boards blog so it looks like everyone's blogs are getting it.

simu

I get that too. Premodding is the only way to go.

tSubh Dearg

I also have enable the Spaminator plugin on my blog. The many emails are easier to deal with than just checking through the comments and less risky, I almost deleted a genuine comment when I was clearing out the spam before I enabled the plugin.

Tar.Aldarion

Spaminator stops them all which is quite good but sends me annoying emails...should turn them off... and premoderate!

simu

Yeah, I had to turn off the e-mail notification - it was swamping my inbox.




Of course, you all know it's Tar.Aldarion sending all that spam. :v: :eek:

kaimera

Pre_modding ftw.

billy the squid

Is there a facility where you have to type the letters which are visible in a JPEG file to verify that it is not a bot spamming you?

azezil

Pre-modding 50 comments a day is getting a bit tiresome ¬_¬

Tar.Aldarion

simu wrote:

Yeah, I had to turn off the e-mail notification - it was swamping my inbox.




Of course, you all know it's Tar.Aldarion sending all that spam. :v: :eek:

Oh I'll fill your inbox all right!
fnarr!

Rabies

simu wrote:

Yeah, I had to turn off the e-mail notification - it was swamping my inbox.

I'm blind. Can't see the option to turn off e-mail notification. Can some one point in the right direction. Thanks

Edit:
Found it

DeVore

I'll bring this to Cloud's attention as he's the Jedi Master of such things.

DeV.

BEAT

I added the spaminator and it is helping with the amount of them, but some do still get through...I find it odd I guess.

The Sweeper

Most of the existing wordpress settings just put the comments in a queue, e.g. you can add a bunch of specs to identifiy spam (user not registered, more than x number of links, specify keywords) but it all just puts the comments right back in the queue.

The best feature on that page is the "mark all as spam" button down the bottom.

Gordon

Every piece of junkmail is simply a potential friend trying to love you.

azezil

I love you Gordon.