It’s been a while since I turned off word verification and comment moderation on my various blog sites. After the change, I was averaging 5-10 spam comments per week. Most of them were on my ‘original’ blog, Two to Travel. This is the blog where I recount our non-Phaeton travels. It has an international readership, which, I believe exponentially increases the chances of receiving spam comments. The good news, all of the spam comments were caught by the Blogger filter.
The spam comments tapered off to almost nothing for a while, but now they seem to be on the rise again. And this time, Phaeton Journeys seems to be the target. Why? Who knows; my mind doesn’t work like a spammer’s mind works. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that Two to Travel has been on hiatus for a while. That’s about to change, however, so we’ll see what happens then.
All spam comments are being caught by the filter, and I have comment moderation turned on for any post that is older than 14 days. Overall, I’m a happy camper — though I can’t help but wish that spammers had something better to do than to flood the www with meaningless words.
If you don’t have comment notification turned on, you might consider checking your spam box every once in a while. To do so (in the new Blogger interface):
- Go to your Dashboard.
- From the list on the left, select Comments.
- Click the Awaiting Moderation and Spam boxes individually to see if there are any comments in either box and take action accordingly. (I usually report them to Blogger as spam and then delete them.)
By the way, a more important reason to occasionally check your spam box — to make sure legitimate comments have not been filtered as spam by Blogger. I’ve fished quite a few out of the spam box and restored them to their rightful place in the blog world.
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