Subscriber Spamming. Does It Hurt?

  • linnslingerie97

    (@linnslingerie97)


    10 years, 7 months ago

    Hi,

    I think I have a large amount of subscriber spam every day. I read somewhere that this is a new tactic by SEO spammers (I use the term SEO VERY loosely!) to try and get links to their sites???

    At first, I deleted them but then I realised that I could be deleting genuine subscribers to my site, I mean…I have no way of differentiating them?!

    Does anyone know a good way of telling or know a plugin that can detect this? Better still, is it really that bad to keep these spammers in the subscriber list? (would it effect our sites if we did?).

    It would be great if it had no effect…we could just leave them alone and have no danger of deleting genuine subscribers LOL

    Thanks

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    look into this plugin: http://wordpress.org/plugins/bad-behavior/

    Julie Anne

    (@getcontentnow)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    I don’t delete all of them. I sometimes use their name but edit the comment, and indicate that I did indeed revise the comment. However, the ones absolutely undecipherable I remove.

    Thread Starter linnslingerie97

    (@linnslingerie97)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    Hi guys,

    Thanks for your help (please forgive me if I’m a little confused here) but isn’t that for post comments?

    Once you’re at your WordPress dashboard go to ‘Users’. I have a list of emails marked as ‘Subscriber’.

    I’m pretty sure the comment editing and Bad Behaviour plugin is for standard comments for posts, right?

    I’m now getting about 5-10 subscribers a day but they have no activity. I would like to think they’re all genuine (that would be awesome lol) but I can’t help think that they are just spammers :o(

    Thanks

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