Blogger FINALLY Gets Spam Filter

August 16, 2010 By

My biggest frustration with Blogger has been the absolute lack of spam moderation. This has been a problem, because I’ve had my humor blog for five years on Blogspot. And while I have been relatively free of spam, lately I’ve been getting a single spam message by a Chinese spammer on every post I make, which meant I had to delete it every single time.

I tried making people sign in, then made it so only people with a Google account could leave a comment. But this weasel was always a step ahead, and I had to delete message after message.

But Blogger finally caught up with something WordPress has been able to do for years: block spam comments.

Blogger finally adds a spam filter to their comments.

Blogger now filters spam comments into a spam folder, just like the one they have in Gmail.

When someone leaves a comment on your blog, it will be reviewed against our spam detector, and comments that are identified as possible spam will be sent to your blog’s Spam Inbox, found at Comments | Spam.

While I thoroughly appreciate the filter and the fact that they’re finally doing something about blog spam, why couldn’t they do this a couple years ago?

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    About Erik Deckers

    Erik Deckers is the VP of Creative Services for Professional Blog Service. He has been blogging since 1997, and has been a published writer for more than 24 years. He is a newspaper humor columnist, appearing in 10 papers around Indiana, and in The American Reporter. Erik co-authored No Bullshit Social Media: The All-Business, No-Hype Guide to Social Media Marketing in August 2011, and Branding Yourself: How to use social media to invent or reinvent yourself, in December 2010 with Pearson. Erik frequently speaks about blogging and social media marketing.

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