Day 198

10:28 AM Posted In Edit This 3 Comments »


Does anyone else have a problem with spam? Not the food--which I'm sure is disgusting, even though I've never eaten it--but in reference to the internet?

I've been getting a lot of spam comments on my blog posts lately. Usually about fake James Bond watches, Chinese dresses, etc. It's irritating and I don't know how to stop it.

Any suggestions?

3 comments:

J.J. in L.A. said...

My commenting system used to filter them out but now that it's a paid service and I'm still using the old version, not so much.

Change your moderation settings to see the posts before approving them.

Lacey said...

This started happening to me too a few months ago, and I HATE captchas so I was really debating what I should do. (I see you have one, I don't blame you, haha!)

What I ended up doing was moderating comments on posts older than 14 days. Most of the spam I was getting was on stuff I've written a while ago, and now I just reject them before they get a chance to be published!

Good luck!

BS Grad said...

You should be thankful you even get comments. I just started my blog earlier this month and not one comment yet. So just change the loved & lost phrase to: It's better to be commented and spammed than to never be commented at all :)