Wednesday, April 08, 2009

Comment Moderation

I've been hit by the same swarm of comment spam that's showing up on other blogs, so I've turned comment moderation on for a couple of days until things settle down.
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pattinase (abbott) said...

Are you getting those little boxes with letters in them? I get them even with comment moderation.

7:58 AM, April 08, 2009
Cullen Gallagher said...

I just got my first spam comment ever - and it was in Japanese. A bunch of links to sites that I'd rather not send people to.

Hopefully it was a fluke, though I might have to take precautions like yourself.

8:51 AM, April 08, 2009
James Reasoner said...

Patti,

Those word verification boxes are supposed to keep spambots from posting spam comments, but that doesn't seem to be working right now.

Cullen,

That's the same spam I got last night, only I got them on dozens of posts. People on other blogs appear to be getting hit with the same thing.

9:12 AM, April 08, 2009
Paul D Brazill said...

got hit today, so I'll do the same!

10:51 AM, April 08, 2009
P.M. said...

i got the Japanese spam comment as well. Is there a way to delete comments once they are posted? Couldn't see that option anywhere.

3:27 PM, April 08, 2009
Iren said...

I got hit today with the same thing

4:46 PM, April 08, 2009
James Reasoner said...

P.M.,

You should be able to delete them. When you're signed in to your blog, go to the page where you can leave a comment on that particular post, and look for a little trashcan icon at the bottom of the spam comment. Clicking on that will take you to a Delete Comment screen.

If the trashcan icon isn't there, I don't know how you'd go about getting rid of them.

5:55 PM, April 08, 2009
Gary Dobbs/Jack Martin said...

I too got the japanease spam comments and then wasted a hour looking at the site.

8:10 AM, April 09, 2009

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