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Interesting perspective that you are sometimes “preaching to the choir” but I know that there are lots of people who read my blog (and yours too I’m sure) who just don’t comment and that’s ok. I like comments, but I don’t write just to get comments. Part of the reason I write is because I like writing, also to help keep my accountable, which I obviously need 🙂
Thanks for sharing a good group of posts this week Hayley!
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You’re welcome! I didn’t leave a comment on any blog before I started blogging myself so I think we can assume that there are people out there reading and not commenting! 🙂
OK that explains why when I tried to go to your site the other day, it was down. Glad you sorted it out and thanks for the tip!
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That could well be the reason – I didn’t know it was down though (probably because I was at the other end fighting off the spam!). Thanks for coming back!
SPAM is such a time suck. They must get on enough websites to make it worth it but it’s such a pain to deal with. Glad you got it sorted out. I get a ton of SPAM too but Askimet has done a good for me. Occasionally a SPAM comment makes it to pending but it’s maybe 1 or 2 a week … not every 10 seconds!
Thanks for mentioning Laurie’s post. She did an amazing job, as always, and it’s such an important topic.
Have a great weekend, Hayley!
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I loved Laurie’s post Shannon. It really is such an important subject. Glad Askimet is working for you at the moment – I wonder if I had some kind of spam virus or something as I’d never had to content with spam on that level prior to Tuesday. Anyway, sorted now!
Good to know. I got hit with tons of spam for Healthy, Fit, and Frugal and didn’t know what to do about it! Have a great weekend!
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Hope you get it sorted soon Tonya! Have a lovely weekend too. 🙂
Hey Hayley and thanks for the good reads 🙂
I get about the same amount of SPAM as you do a day…sometimes more…at least I am able to manually et rid of them in bulk fashion. However, what I had to do was to use the “close comments after 14 days” feature of WordPress cause I was getting over 1000 comments a day!! This usually happens once a blog or website reaches a certain page-rank that SPAMmers find attractive. Still a bummer though!
Take care and have a great weekend.My best to all.
Lyle
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Hi Lyle that’s a good idea about the close comments feature. I didn’t know there was such a thing – thanks for sharing! Hope you have a lovely weekend Lyle! 🙂
Oh how annoying! I’m sorry you had to deal with it. That’s definitely a bit weird. I get around, I would say, 20 or so spam comments a day? But I’m able to bulk delete them. There are also times where actual comments get marked as spam, which is a bother too. Glad you got it all sorted out though! Have a great weekend!
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Thanks E.M. Spam is a real pain. Askimet used to work just fine for me but for some reason these spam robots managed to find a loop hole somewhere! Have a lovely weekend too!:)
Hi Hayley, thanks for including me in your fab roundup, some good posts here.
Do you use Cloudflare? As well as speeding your site up it adds an extra layer of defence against spammers. It’s free and I’d highly recommend trying it to see if it helps keep spam comments at bay.
Cheers
WT
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You’re welcome WT! I’ll check out Cloudfare, thank you for the tip! Since I’ve been using WP-Spamshield I haven’t had any spam whatsoever, it’s been great. But I could do with something to speed up my site.