Title: Recognizing Spam
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Recognizing Spam

 *  [lawnsignmaker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lawnsignmaker/)
 * (@lawnsignmaker)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recognizing-spam/)
 * I’ve set up this blog ([http://www.LawnBagSigns.com/Comments-Blog/](http://www.lawnbagsigns.com/comments-blog))
   so that people could see the funny pictures, comment on them and help my search
   engine rating 🙂 .
 * However, there seems to be a lot of spam that is submitted as comments. I have
   two plug ins installed against spam – Akismet and just recently, BadBehaviour(
   so I’m not really sure how well it works yet).
 * My question is however about the smarter spammers who use generic comments such
   as “Great Post!”. I’ve thought about it and one thing I think would work and 
   would make it much easier for me is that if I removed all links and just posted
   the comment “as is”, just the text and the name of the poster. Is that possible?
   I can’t seem to find such an option.

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 *  [saildude](https://wordpress.org/support/users/saildude/)
 * (@saildude)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recognizing-spam/#post-1576248)
 * You can edit anything in a comment – mouse over the lower part of the comment
   and some options will show up – click on edit and blow the link away –
 * Too much work for me – if it is a generic comment from a mattress company or 
   what ever and it shows up on my Boating Safety site – they are just flat gone–
   but you have a more generic site and get a wider cross section of viewers
 * Good luck – my spam is triple or more what it was 4 months ago.
 *  Thread Starter [lawnsignmaker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lawnsignmaker/)
 * (@lawnsignmaker)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recognizing-spam/#post-1576528)
 * Oh yeah, I **can** do that. Thanks 🙂

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 * Last activity: [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recognizing-spam/#post-1576528)
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