I have a few blogs here and there around the internet. One mistake I have made recently is to setup my comment settings with a notification email for any comments in moderation. This started off ok as I got notified about some legit comments that I went in and approved.

But then things changed…My blogs got noticed by comment spammers. Suddenly I was getting 100 emails a day, 200 a day, then all of a sudden in the thousands. This was all from just a few blogs. The spam boys had hit me big time. At first I just ignored these but over time my email download time was being taken up with all this crap.

It was now time to take action. I had to go into my blogs and turn off the notification. I had this happen to me in the past and things got so bad I ended up deleting the post that the spam comments kept getting added to. These people obviously use some automated stuff to seek out blogs they can leave a comment.

I guess they get some return from this activity as why would you do it otherwise but boy is it annoying. I do have akismet to try to filter out this crap but so many get past. I guess there are options I can tweak to make the akismet filter more effective.

Does this type of thing happen to you? If it does how do you manage the situation? Love to hear from you with real comments.

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