The Reason Why She Stop Blogging
Filed in: Weblog, WordPress — September 6th, 2006
I just helped a friend clear over 8,000 spam comments of her WordPress blog. She had stop blogging for a long time due to the mass number of spams. Finally, her blog is clean now. 
A lot of WordPress spam comments
I installed Akismet antispam plugin for her WordPress, but it does not clear existing spam comments, which are carried over from MovableType blog. Therefore, I used “Paged Comment Editing” plugin to delete the spam comments manually (mass delete 1000 comments at each time).
Phew~ killing spams is fun! 
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September 6th, 2006 at 7:05 pm
good job..
spam are so bothersome… i have around 20 spams per day
September 6th, 2006 at 7:31 pm
and tiring too
September 6th, 2006 at 10:03 pm
Wow 8000. I got 11 spam in a day on my blog on wordpressadsense.
September 6th, 2006 at 11:31 pm
Cannot ask the user to register before comment meh? i think should be easier
September 7th, 2006 at 12:24 am
Register before comment is easier for blogger, but harder for readers. You are not encouraging readers to comment in that way.
September 7th, 2006 at 12:29 am
Hi Liew, you might like to take a look at my guide.
September 7th, 2006 at 12:41 am
@Ajay D’Souza: nice guide. I am a happy Akismet problogger license user. Just make sure you enable Akismet as soon as your wordpress blog is online.
September 7th, 2006 at 2:29 am
dang spam..thank God for askimet!!
September 7th, 2006 at 11:07 am
I got BB, SK2 and the SK2 Akismet Plugin, so I harness the power of all three to ensure I keep spam away
September 7th, 2006 at 3:06 pm
@Ajay D’Souza: I think it will increase false alarms as well, no? I used to use the combinations of antispam plugins, but later discovered that many good visitors are unable to submit their comments.
September 8th, 2006 at 1:18 am
I don’t think so.
Well, the reason being is first BB takes action. After that if a comment is submitted, SK2 runs its checks.
I don’t use Akismet plugin that is bundled with WP. I use the Sk2+Akismet plugin which is basically a plugin for SK2 which also looks up from Akismet.
From my experience that plugin isn’t all that necessary, because SK2 has managed to do an amazing job anyway.
I have also found that SK2 does a better job than Akismet, and hence refuse to shift from it.
I also have Moderation enabled in case a manually submitted spam comment gets thru. However, I don’t know how feasible it would be on your blog which is a lot more popular. I mean more work for you.