[wp-forums] Spam from ShenZhen

[esmi at quirm dot net]

on 10/10/2012 13:52 Otto said the following:
> Yeah. And? That's sorta what the spam queue is for.

But it sure ain't fun trying to check through them at 20 posts a time 
(cleared about 400 first thing yesterday). I estimate we're getting 
about 1,000 per day with up to 75% of them being ShenZhen spam. With 
this level of spam, there's a real risk of genuine posts being missed 
and deleted. I've already had to retrieve deleted posts on at least 1 
occasion because someone alerted me to something that had been deleted 
in error. We're only human and mistakes like this will be happening.

> We're not trying to block them from sending us their spam.

Can I ask why not? For that matter, why don't we delete these users? Yes 
- I know they'll create new accounts but they do that anyway. I've been 
experimenting on the Quirm forum which has also been hit with this spam. 
Deleting spam accounts definitely decreases the amount of spam per day. 
Don't delete them and the level of spam rises exponentially.

> We're
> sending it all through to Akismet anyway. As long as it's showing up
> in the spam queue, then that's success.

Doesn't feel like it when you're slogging through the spam queue umpteen 
times a day.

Mel
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