Page owners now have a tool to help them delete huge spam runs. Go to /spamdelete and follow the instructions there. It's basically like a 'find and delete' script, so the key to it being effective is to pick out a word or phrase you can search all your comments on that will return *just* the spam comments. In practice this isn't very hard because the spams will often contain a weird URL that is similar over all of them (like 289jwa89423w232.spamhost.com) or it will use the bbcode '[url]' link code that we don't use on this site.
Please let me know if you have any trouble using it.
Excellent, thanks--I tried it with a test word I knew was only in one comment and it came right up.
One thing to mention--the search is case specific. (As it probably should be to keep the searches manageable.)
nice
Are you using this a lot Tom? I've been getting false unread comments on your page and I'm thinking maybe this tool is to blame.
Yes, I have used it several times, including for that page with the comment-closing problem.
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Please let me know if you have any trouble using it.
- jim 4-02-2007 7:59 pm
Excellent, thanks--I tried it with a test word I knew was only in one comment and it came right up.
One thing to mention--the search is case specific. (As it probably should be to keep the searches manageable.)
- tom moody 4-02-2007 8:37 pm [add a comment]
nice
- jimlouis 4-03-2007 4:25 pm [add a comment]
Are you using this a lot Tom? I've been getting false unread comments on your page and I'm thinking maybe this tool is to blame.
- jim 4-05-2007 7:26 pm [add a comment]
Yes, I have used it several times, including for that page with the comment-closing problem.
- tom moody 4-05-2007 8:59 pm [add a comment]