I hated to do it but I finally turned on comment moderation.It wasn't that I got any nasty or rude or insensitive comments. It was the unrelenting spam via an Internet Service Provider on Taiwan called Chunghwa Telecom.
There were times last year when I got 10 or 11 spam comments on multiple blog posts on the same day. And they had to be deleted one by one, a time-consuming task.
The spam stopped for awhile but recently it's started up again with a vengeance. I understand Blogger is a free service but I wish it would do a better filtering job. And I'd love to know if there's a way to block this one ISP.
When I leave a comment on someone's blog, I like the instant gratification of seeing it appear immediately. But it's getting to be ridiculous. Every day I'm deleting a half-dozen or more spam comments.
I can approve comments by e-mail and I check my e-mail pretty regularly, so there shouldn't be too much of a lag time. And the only ones I plan to reject are spam.
So far, it's working. I had five spam comments in five minutes earlier this evening and none of them got on my blog.
Thank-you for understanding.
I feel your pain. Each day I'm deleting three or four myself.
ReplyDeleteTwo things I forgot to mention: Blogger lets you bam anonymous comments, which these are. So that might solve the problem. Also, I can have moderation apply only to older posts, which would cut down on it. I really don't enjoy this blanket moderation. But I don't enjoy deleting the spam either!
ReplyDeleteMost of those comments I've been deleting on my blog aren't anonymous. They have some bizarre name and it usually contains a link to a site for something completely unrelated to sell something. They're incidious.
ReplyDeleteAnother idea I had - most of my spam seems to come between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. So I was thinking I could turn on moderation overnight then turn it off in the morning. Although that might be more of a pain in the neck.
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