High increase in spam comments (that previously were sorted out)

  • Resolved Oliver

    (@oliverraduner)


    3 years, 1 month ago

    Hi there,
    in the recent weeks it started that I receive an increased amount of SPAM comments on my blog (see “page you need help with”).

    The comments are marked as “[Spam]” fortunately – but due to the dull nature of the content, event actually containing the word viagra, I am reaching out to see, if others also experience this.

    My WordPress setup:

    • WordPress 5.6.2
    • Akismet Anti-Spam 4.1.8
    • Jetpack by WordPress.com 9.4
    • Subscription Type: Akismet Personal
    • Status: Active
    • Akismet anti-spam strictness: Silently discard the worst and most pervasive spam so I never see it

    Detailed Akismet Spam-Protection Stats
    Notice the increase in February 2021.

    DATE	SPAM	HAM	MISSED SPAM	FALSE POSITIVES
February 2021	26	42	0	1
January 2021	5	18	0	0
December 2020	3	19	0	0
November 2020	7	9	3	0

    Of these, alone in the last two days 10 comments are marked as “[Spam]”, but should be “Ham”, I guess. Here’s an outtake of such Spam Comments:

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    Author

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xxxxx.com

    Comment

    current business ethics issues essay

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    —

    Author

    essay help services
xxxxxx.comx

    Comment

    can someone help me write college essay

help me make my essay longer

    —

    Author

    pay someone to write my research paper
xxxxxxx.com

    Comment

    how to write an analytical research paper

which of the following skills is most important in learning how to write a research paper?

    —

    Author

    viagra generico
https://xxxxxxx.com

    Comment

    <strong>comprar viagra</strong>

comprar viagra

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    <small>(Notice: this post was initially posted over at Jetpack, but they directed me to here…)</small>

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Thread Starter Oliver

    (@oliverraduner)

    3 years, 1 month ago

    Addition: might be seeing the same as reported in this thread «Spam comments»

    Plugin Author Christopher Finke

    (@cfinke)

    3 years, 1 month ago

    Is the issue that spam comments are being approved by Akismet or that they’re being caught but not automatically deleted?

    Thread Starter Oliver

    (@oliverraduner)

    3 years, 1 month ago

    @cfinke the latter: being caught, but would expect it to be “strict” on these cases.

    Honestly I compare it to the months < February 2021 where I received zero-to-one such flagged spam comments per month – was I just lucky for long? 😉

    Plugin Author Christopher Finke

    (@cfinke)

    3 years, 1 month ago

    The bar for what is discarded automatically is pretty high so as not to automatically discard something that has any chance of being a false positive. I’d wager that you were just lucky for a while. 🙂

    Thread Starter Oliver

    (@oliverraduner)

    3 years, 1 month ago

    @cfinke is there some way to report such spam-comments in order to help optimize the filter-rule on the global scale? Or does it learn automatically fron when I delete spam-marked comments?

    Plugin Author Christopher Finke

    (@cfinke)

    3 years, 1 month ago

    There’s no way to report them, but I’ll take a look at our settings for determining what’s considered discardable to make sure we have it tuned properly.

    Thread Starter Oliver

    (@oliverraduner)

    3 years, 1 month ago

    Cool thanks 👍

    Thread Starter Oliver

    (@oliverraduner)

    3 years, 1 month ago

    @cfinke not sure if you were actually able to improve the pervasive spam rule, or it‘s just „luck“ again – but since our discussion here I did not receive a single, marked as spam, comment of the mentioned kind!

    👏

    Plugin Author Christopher Finke

    (@cfinke)

    3 years, 1 month ago

    Let’s say it was definitely the changes I made. 🙂 Glad to hear it’s working better.

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