Controlling Spam

As you begin to receive feedback on your blog, you may start to notice comments from solicitors.

These types of comments are called spam and they are generally an unwanted presence.

There are certain steps you can take to controlling spam.

UMW Blogs is already pretty good at monitoring and detecting these sort of comments, where they never actually appear on your site. They go to the Spam section located on your dashboard.

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You can click here to pull up a history of comments that you (or UMW blogs) has determined as spam. For more information on how to make a comment a spam comment view the Managing Comments wiki article.

Right next to the comment itself you'll see a couple of actions.

Not Spam - This action will turn what has been marked as a spam comment into a normal one. This will allow the comment to appear on your blog.

Delete Permanently - This action will get rid of the spam comment permanently so that it no longer appears in your spam filter or on your website.

There's an action bar above the comment(s) that you can also use to apply actions to your comments.

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Bulk Actions - If you have a lot of spam comments, you may wish to apply a specific action to all of them at once. These include the Not Spam and Delete Permanently options, but they also contain an Approve action. Approve is meant for new comments that you do not believe are spam. It takes a step out from Not Spam to Approve.