Anyone getting comment spam?

[Chatty]

I just checked my blog and there were 3 comments to my WIP Wednsday thread. When I looked, none of the comments had anything at all to do with what I'd posted. The first one sounded like it had been written by someone without a firm grasp of grammar. All of them had some kind of link in them that had nothing to do with crochet.

 

I deleted all 3 comments and posted a comment there to the fact to please not spam my blog like that then I wrote a post essentially saying the same thing.

 

I wasn't really angry but it was slightly annoying, if someone's commenting to one of my posts I prefer them to be commenting about that particular post not trying to get me to click a link. I don't know if any of it was porn, I wasn't about to click anything that was unsolicited.

 

I just thought I'd post this to blow off a little more steam.

[CatsCradleCreations]

I'm glad you posted this; maybe if enough of us complain the spam will at least slow. I received a spam comment on my blog several weeks ago; I actually read through the whole thing to try and get a grasp as to why it was there. Then it hit me that it was SPAM! Looks like spammers aren't satisfied with people's e-mail accounts anymore~~they've gone to our online journals. :rant

 

I appreciate real comments, but I also deleted the spam comment as I don't want my blog to get junked up with spam. I don't delete slander (there's still one on my patterns blog), but spam doesn't stand a chance in either my inbox or my comment box. Okay; I feel better now that I've blown off steam.

[Sabra]

In the dashboard, go into Settings, then Comments, turn on Word Verification. May not kill the spam completely, but will certainly help.

[LibiLou]

I got spammed a couple of times before I turned on the verfication, I've not been spammed since.

[faithpa76]

Ah ha, now I know what that's for! I'm going to go turn mine on, I've gotten 4 or 5 spams on my blog in the last couple of weeks. Grrrrrrrr!

[tippymarie]

Thanks for the tip. I didn't even know it was possible to spam a blog. I guess where there's a will there's a way. Some people.....

[antara]

That happened to me a couple days ago. I deleted the comments and switched the "comments" settings so that anonymous posts weren't allowed. It was pretty annoying. I got a blog to express myself, not give free advertising space to spammers.

[Chatty]

Thank you, Sabra

 

Going to do that now before I get hit again.

[HookandCrook]

But Chatty (and all) those little trolls make such interesting comments.

 

My blog was hit while I was traveling and I kept deleting and deleting. Then it stopped. Recently it started again. As fast as I was deleting those interesting comments new ones were appearing.

 

Turning on the verification has stopped it, for now. I don't want to stop the anon posts as too many of my friends don't have a blog, but like to leave me notes.

 

Hopefully, you have it under control.

 

 

HnC

[Julie]

Yeah, try to leave anonymous comments on if you can, or honest folks like me who blog but don't have a Blogspot blog can't leave comments for you. And if it's any consolation, I'm getting slammed by spam too, but just trackback spam so far. I need to research it and see how to handle it or I'm going to have a mess if I manage to go on vacation in October.

[andiM]

Yes, I too got spam'd. They need to get a life!

[Karen C.]

I just started getting spam on my blog and immediately enabled the comment verification feature at blogger. Although the spam wasn't pornographic, it was annoying.

[RachelG]

Ugh...yes I get it...people signing my guestbook and entering things through my Tips and Tricks form, etc. Fortunately it is never published...I pre-approve things for a reason!

[Chatty]

But Chatty (and all) those little trolls make such interesting comments.

 

HnC

Hiya, Kim

 

Well, one of them was kinda interesting, had something to do with zits

 

I haven't had a problem with zits for.....*mumble*.......years

[HookandCrook]

Well, one of them was kinda interesting, had something to do with zits

ROFL! One of mine was a lawyer looking for clients, another was a gal looking for ... ermmm .. .clients. Then there was the cowboy with recipes, that had ... ermmm .. pictures. *blush*

 

Now zits ... I actually had to deal with them in June when my doc put me on Provera for 10 days. Was a barrel of laughs.

[Kellycat]

I was also spammed, but I just deleted it. I'd rather leave the comments section the way it is so that I can get comments from SPs and such.