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Comment moderation has been added again. I'm sorry to my regular and faithful visitors, but yesterday felt like a near disaster as a certain Chinese person attempted to leave his mark all over my blog. All in Chinese, so incomprehensible to us but I think the idea was for his huge lists of links to be followed by Google's spiders. At the moment I know of no other way to combat spam, so I'll leave it in place for a while.
I understand. There have been too many spammers, I put in verifications for comments.
ReplyDeleteOh, A. how awful for you. You feel so helpless in the face of such an invasion. I have had an occasional visit from some S American bloke who wants me to provide a link to his blog and mention him on mine. Sorry, but no chance.
ReplyDeleteGood luck.
I know its a pain A but its the best way. I get surprising little touch wood.
ReplyDeleteI think that same person got to me, too! With about a hundred different links, all in Chinese. I added comment moderation for any posts over 2 days old, since I always check my recent posts for comments. I have found that lots of spam tries to get posted on older entries.
ReplyDelete@ECL, I suppose that does slow them up, I could give it a try.
ReplyDelete@Elaine, it wasn't good at all. He left hundreds, and now I'm going to have to trawl through and make sure I haven't left any undeleted. The occasional one can be deleted easily enough, yesterday it was hundreds. I rather wish I hadn't been so talkative in the past. :)
@Mike, it's looking like it. Sad.
sorry that happened. people can be so juvenile.
ReplyDeletejust wanted to encourage you to keep your dreams alive! :)
@Daisy, sorry I missed your comment earlier. It must have been in moderation while I was replying! :) You're right about spam usually being on older posts, so I'll probably give that a try. A feasible half-way house perhaps.
ReplyDelete@Debbie, many thanks. I'm certainly chasing those bubbles. :)
Sorry for your unwelcome visitor. They make it difficult for all of us.
ReplyDeleteI suppose it is done by computer, as opposed to some spotty adolescent sitting in his little box typing all day.
ReplyDeleteAnnoying all the same.
It's a sign of the popularity of your blog. A quiet blog doesn't get attacked so much.
ReplyDeleteMax, they do. How to win friends.
ReplyDelete@Adullamite, I think you may well be right. I could see from my stats he/she/it was working its way methodically through the posts.
@Solomon, thank you for making me feel better! A positive outlook is always great!
I have zero tolerance for spammers, thank goodness I have a decent plugin on my blog and not many get through, grrr.
ReplyDeleteA. Spammers are getting on my nerve everyday. I have to go through some hundreds of comment on some day so as not to miss out the legitimate one. The thing is, I have spam program in place and these spammers can still get through somehow. I can't imagine what will happen if I do not put the spam program in place.
ReplyDeleteI guess that is the good thing about having fewer than 20 comments. I can weed mine out fairly easily. I have been very lucky so far although the chinese one did get me also. I deleted it and have had no more. Hang in there!
ReplyDeleteOuch. I hate them. Though I only get a couple a day since I installed the "Bad Behavior" plugin for my Wordpress. I'm so lucky - it works like a charm :-)
ReplyDeleteHope you get rid off them. Even though I hate it myself: I think you'll get less spam with the word verification, thing on, since automatic spammers can't manage to get through that one as easy.
WOw... that is such a bummer and time waster. Thanks for signing up to follow myqualityday.blogspot.com. I'm finally trying to thank those who have.
ReplyDeleteI got hit not too long ago, robot spammer left over a thousand comments on one post.
ReplyDeleteSpam is one thing, insults another. Just this past week, I checked my website and found a misogynist post that appeared to have come totally out of the blue (and on an innocuous entry about typhoons to boot!). :S
ReplyDeleteA. I am very very sorry. Pardon me, I had approved your comment which ended up in the spam box and had even replied to your comment. But when I deleted all the other spam comment, your comment was somehow deleted also. It's frustrating that a spam program put to work not only remove the spam but also legitimate comment. Very sorry for it. But I had read and replied to your comment.
ReplyDeleteA. nothing to apologize for; it's better to keep the blog clean as spam is increasing and you can search over Google foe this stuff.
ReplyDeleteI myself is suffring from this stuff even if the moderation is enabled but better than nothing.
I love these pictures. The cathedral is so massive. And you must be really fit to have climbed all those stairs!
ReplyDeleteI will try to stop spamming you. :)
Thanks to all of you for your support. I do appreciate it.
ReplyDeleteYTSL, that sounds horrible. I wouldn't like to have to deal with that.
BK, don't worry at all about that. It wasn't such a great insight. :)
And Max, friends are never spammers. :)