Blog is spammed to bits

Placebo · 17-02-2008 05:23PM #1

I'm using wordpess, i had not logged in or posted in a while and slowly i started getting email notifications about comments,

i think my email itself is spammed with comment notifications, irony.

anyway
http://ilovenicii.com/?p=38#comments

what can i do ?

aidan_walsh · 17-02-2008 05:25PM

Have you Askimet installed?

zAbbo · 17-02-2008 05:26PM

Have you got akismet setup?

disable urls in comments...

Placebo · 17-02-2008 05:26PM

no i dont, thanks guys.
Would have thought wordpress would handle such nonsense by default.

Basq · 17-02-2008 05:27PM

Yep, Askimet is a saviour!

mneylon · 17-02-2008 06:36PM

There are several ways of tackling comment spam. Akismet may work well, Bad Behavior (sic) works very well and you can always consider adding some form of captcha to the comment form as well.

aidan_walsh · 17-02-2008 07:44PM

Would have thought wordpress would handle such nonsense by default.

Never a good assumption to make about anything.

Placebo · 17-02-2008 07:59PM

aidan_walsh wrote: »

Never a good assumption to make about anything.

true but i have 6 posts so was not expecting over 1,600 comments

Total: 2922 hits and 1316 unique. seem odd aswell, i take it their all spam hits.?

edit: btw i need my api key for this but have no idea what my username is for wordpress?

mneylon · 17-02-2008 10:38PM

Placebo wrote: »

edit: btw i need my api key for this but have no idea what my username is for wordpress?

You have to register on wordpress.com

As for the number of comments ... The trackback and comment scripts on my personal blog get hit thousands of times per day

Blog is spammed to bits

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