Title: Spam
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Spam

 *  [hayesgro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hayesgro/)
 * (@hayesgro)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spam-17/)
 * I am a new blogger and have been swamped with spam from cialis, viagra, gambling
   sites sending spam through Southwest Airlines. Currently averaging 80 – 100 per
   day. I’ve added some key words to my Settings/Discussion comment blacklist to
   identify these as spam. However I’m not sure it is working as I received 10 more
   spam comments since making the changes. I have two questions on this topic:
 * 1) Do I want this kind of traffic to my blog? I’ve assumed I do not but maybe
   that is the wrong assumption.
 * 2) Is there a better way to handle spam then adding words to the blacklist?
 * I appreciate anyone’s thoughts. Thanks.

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 *  [webjunk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webjunk/)
 * (@webjunk)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spam-17/#post-1095729)
 * Do you have the Akismet plugin activated?
 *  Thread Starter [hayesgro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hayesgro/)
 * (@hayesgro)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spam-17/#post-1095858)
 * Thanks – I do now.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [hayesgro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hayesgro/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spam-17/#post-1095858)
 * Status: not resolved

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