Deleting Spam Comments on Blogger

When you get an icky spam comment (or any kind of icky comment you wanna get rid of) you want to know how to delete the spammy or icky comment even if you don't have comment moderation turned on. Here's how you do it in blogger:

1) Log in to your blogger account.

2) Go to the post that has the icky comment the same way you'd go to read cool comments.

3) The comments page part may look one of these two ways below, but that's ok!
Look for the lil trashcan icon that's with the icky comment and click that.

After you've clicked the lil trash can by the icky comment, you'll see this.

5) Check the box next to "Remove forever" and then click "Delete Comment".
Checking "Remove forever" makes it vanish like there never was an icky comment at all, so that's good.

6) Once you've done that, you see this, and you're all done!


No more icky comment! Woo hoo!

Wordpress blogs and Spam

I've been noticing that some cats are getting some comment spam. Some of those spam comments are from place selling interesting items. It's easy to go in and delete them. It can get frustrating if for some reason your blog is targeted for lots of this comment spam. Blogger helps because you can insert that little comment verification, however human spam can still get through.

There's also been some targeted hate spam going on in comments of various blogs. I'd like to point out a plugin you can get for your wordpress blog that combats all sorts of spam. Wordpress has many spam plugins. I found a blog using spam karma and I found that particular plugin and so I've used it. I have no real complaints except that from time to time spammers will find away around the filters.

However, it saves me most spam. In the logs I have 84 spam comments and about a dozen approved comments since the last time I checked. I believe that's been about 3 days. Spam Karma automatically captures the IP of your spammer as well as an email address and any other information. You can then either blog the email address (although it's probably fake), the keywords they are using (ie viagra), or you can even block the entire IP. Blocking the IP is dangerous because sometimes people are on a group IP address. However, for a really bad spammer that you can't get rid of any other way, it's a good solution. You can always remove the IP when the spammer moves on.

I still get a little spam, but very little. And if I do, spam karma will help me prevent more from that source in the future. It also gives me tools to work with if I have been targeted for any hate spam coming my way. Worst case scenario, I get a lot of hate spam from one IP. I can block it, but I can also report it to my host and they can block that IP from getting to my site and/or report the spammer to THEIR host.

My Comments are being overtaken by Mr Anonymus!

Owr best frends Rosie and Cheeto rite:

I switched ovur to the new blogger and almost all of my comments show up as anonomous. We don't know who this anonomous guy is but he's hawging our cat
friends comments. What do we do!?!

This is a tuff one. Sumtimes, win thare are problims with Blogger's comments, it becomes impossibul to sine in and leeve a comment unless yoo do so anonnymussly. This is maybe whut happend on yer blog. This was a BIG problim win noo Blogger came owt. Mao had that problim for a wile win he swicht over frum old Blogger to noo Blogger... with him, only noo Blogger users cood log in to leeve comments on his blog, so evrybuddy else had to leeve comments as anonnymuss. After a wile, it started werking okay agin.

We did a cuppul of tests tonite, and it seemed like we cood leeve comments on yer blog withowt a problem using both new Blogger and old Blogger signons, so I think we wood rekummend that yoo wate and see whut happens over the next cuppul of daze. If yoo still have the problem, yoo can change yer comments settings so that only rejisterd uzers can leeve comments --- but this leeves all non-Blogger cats unable to leeve comments at all, so it's kind of a last reezort...

If yoo hit the Settings tab, then klik the Comments link, yoo can change yer comments settings. In this case, yoo wunt to change it from "Anyone" to "Only Registered Users" (see below):

This will make it impossible for anywun to leeve comments anonymussly --- but it also meens that only users with Blogger IDs can leeve comments.

The staff of the Cat Blog Help Center will kontinyoo to moniter the sichyooayshun and see if we can find owt more info on why this is occurring!

How do I create links in post comments?

George, Tipper, Max and Misty ask:

OK, we have a question. Lots of times when someone leaves a comment, they "highlight" a few words and link them back to something. Either another cats blog, or a previous post in their own blog. How is that done? We read Bloggers "help" on the subject, which was of course, no help at all! We know how to do it on our postings, but not how to do it on comments.

Win yer leeving Blogger comments, yoo need to use reel HTML to create yer links. Heer's how to do it:

Let's say yoo wunt to link to blogger.com, and yoo wunt the link text to say "Heer's a link to blogger.com."

1) Yoo need to put stuff at the frunt of yer link AND at the bak of yer link.

a) Start with <a href=" in frunt of yer link.
b) Tipe yer link with the http stuff in frunt, like this: http://www.blogger.com
c) Add a "> after yer link.

This will give yoo: <a href="http://www.blogger.com">

2) Tipe yer link text. This is the hilited text the user will klik on to go to the place yoo linked to. For example: "Heer's a link to blogger.com." So, adding that, yoo now have:

<a href="http://www.blogger.com">Heer's a link to blogger.com

3) YER NOT DONE YET!!! Yoo have to add a clozing tag -- otherwize, evrything after yer link will be linked, text, too. So yoo have to tell it to stop linking by adding a </a> tag.

So yer final link (the stuff yoo tipe in to make the link) will look like this:
<a href="http://www.blogger.com">Heer's a link to blogger.com</a>

NOTE: The comments feeld only supports vary vary basik HTML formatting and links, like making yer text bold or slanty (I think that's called italiks).

>> For more HTML stuff, reed Kaze's post on the subjekt.

How do I get my pikchur to show up win I leeve comments?

This is a hard qweschun to answer becuz thare are many fakters that come into play.... whut tipe of blog yer leeving comments on, whut version of blogger yer on, how yoo sined in to leeve comments. But heer is sum informayshun that mite help:

• If yer leeving comments on a blogger blog and yoo haven't got a blogger akkownt, yer foto won't show up.
• If yer leeving comments on a blogger blog and yoo have got a blogger akkownt, but yoo were not sined in win yoo left comments, yer foto won't show up.
• If yer leeving comments on a blogger blog and yoo have got a blogger akkownt, but yoo haven't put a foto in yer profile, yer foto won't show up.
• If yer leeving comments on a blogger blog and yoo have got a blogger akkownt, but yer sined in a "anonymus" yer foto won't show up.
  

So, let's assoom yoo have a blogger akkownt, but yoo haven't put a foto in yer profile. Heer's whut yoo do:

1) Go to yer blogger dashbord.

2) Clik the edit profile link:

(Clik to biggify)

3) And on yer profile page, skrole down to the PHOTOGRAPH sekshun:

(Clik to biggify)

4) And then put in the path ware yer foto is ON THE WEB. This meens the foto has to be online sumware* --- yoo can't just point to ware it is on yer compyooter and uplode:

(Clik to biggify)

5) Then, just skrole to the bottum of the screen and klik the orange "Save Profile" buttun!

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* If yer foto is online sumware, rite-klik the foto, and in the box that comes up, selekt "Properties" at the bottum. In the properties box, look at whut's next to "Address (URL)" --- this is the "path" to yer image. Using the tag format beelow, paste this path into an image tag as beelow (replacing the path between the quotes in the tag beelow with yer path), and put that into the form box on the profile page to point to yer foto:

<IMG SRC="http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/yerfoto.jpg">