Comments on: Undersized Urbanite Update (February)

By: Audra

Audra — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 21:39:51 +0000

I had to change my comment settings to allow only members of the blog. Suddenly I was literally getting 2-4 a day. When I tried to remove it, spam quickly appeared in only a couple hours - so back to members only.

Feel free to share anything you want from my blog!

By: Mini Dork

Mini Dork — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:54:41 +0000

In reply to Mini Dork.

Bigger problem than just you… Ugh. I’m having spam issues where obvious spam that previously would have been filtered sent to spam, is now getting published and I have to manually move it to spam and delete it.

It seems that spammers found a work around Google’s/Blogger’s spam filter. If you are still having issues you may want to report them at the link below. From what I can tell, people started complaining about a month ago. Google is “working” on it, but jeesh it sucks. It’s so annoying that spam comments are getting published.

Here’s the forum if you are still having issues:
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/blogger/SIWW_X6pIMc

By: Max

Max — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 02:58:44 +0000

heh heh, so cute of you to mention my latest and greatest ‘project’! xxx

By: Christina

Christina — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:22:37 +0000

In reply to onshore. Thanks Leena! Can't wait to see what you have planned.

By: Christina

Christina — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:22:07 +0000

In reply to Mini Dork. It was a post about laminating checklists of all things. I LOVE your idea of setting up a filter! Off to do that right now, thank you.

By: Christina

Christina — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:20:43 +0000

In reply to Linda. Excellent, thank you!

By: Christina

Christina — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:20:23 +0000

In reply to Q. Watermarks are great! I love when things are watermarked on Pinterest, we don't have to go hunting for the source.

Blogger is supposed to have a spam blocker, normally it works, but somehow these were all getting through.

By: Christina

Christina — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:18:08 +0000

In reply to otterine. Sure enough, the email was in the spam folder, so glad you said something! Thanks for letting me know. :)

By: Mini Dork

Mini Dork — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 04:03:54 +0000

Which post was it? That is a ridiculous amount. I had one post that got about 60 spam comments in a couple of days so I ended up just disabling comments for that one post (I left a comment explaining and asking real people to comment on the next post). I think that spammers search for popular search terms or hot topics. I had a ton of spam on a post about the President and for "contests" and anytime I use "free" in the title of the post.

Another solution is to add comment moderation, and approve each message before it is published. You could set up a filter in your email inbox, so all of the comments from "anonymous" skip the inbox and go into a folder you glance at later. For me, about 1 out of every 40 "anonymous" comments is an actual real comment.

What a pain, so sorry!

By: Linda

Linda — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 03:29:11 +0000

I am thrilled when you feature me! No issues or problems here.