{"id":772,"date":"2008-07-07T22:31:41","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T06:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aprilgem.com\/log\/?p=772"},"modified":"2008-07-07T22:31:41","modified_gmt":"2008-07-08T06:31:41","slug":"drowning-in-comment-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aprilgem.com\/log\/?p=772","title":{"rendered":"Drowning in Comment Spam"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t moderate my blog comments as often as I should, and unless a comment is from someone I’ve approved once before, a comment will hang in moderation purgatory until I get to it. Well … when I checked the comments tonight prior to writing a little something, I found around 750 comments awaiting moderation.<\/p>\n

My jaw dropped.<\/p>\n

Most of it is spam, of course—probably even all of them. But when I clicked over to the comment moderation page, the comments were so numerous, the page they populated so long, that my content management system couldn’t display them all for me. It stopped part way, meaning I had to find some other way to delete them because the mass delete option was no longer there.<\/p>\n

Swear words were uttered.<\/p>\n

So tonight, instead of writing up a post bemoaning all the sex and violence that I just read in a book called Tom Jones<\/em> and sharing a super long book list I recently found, I’m sitting here deleting all those spam comments, 20 at a time.<\/p>\nShare this post:

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I don’t moderate my blog comments as often as I should, and unless a comment is from someone I’ve approved once before, a comment will hang in moderation purgatory until I get to it. Well … when I checked the comments tonight prior to writing a little something, I found around 750 comments awaiting moderation. My jaw dropped. Most of it is spam, of course—probably even all of them. But when I clicked over to the comment moderation page, the…<\/p>\n

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