Blacklist plugin deletes every comment..

You probably have a blank line in the blacklist. It’s an easy mistake to make. Basically, if you have a blank line in the blacklist, then the plugin thinks that everything with a space in it (or any other form of blank, white space) is spam and deletes it.

well i did found a blank line .took it out…refreshed the whole stuff …wrote a comment and got trashed again….
so whassup with this plugin ?

If what macmanx said is true, then this has happened way too many times already. Someone’d better tell the plugin author to create more robust function to parse the keywords. How hard is it to ignore white space? and ask users to enclose significant white space with, for example, quotes, e.g. “spam bot”, ” “.?
Don’t you think?

Are you sure that was the only blank line? Did you check at the beginning and the end of the blacklist too?

tried it again and same story….
i checked if my stuff was out of the database and still got kicked….
and the email shows this….
Triggered by : Author URL: matched //i

Fun. Are you talking WP’s default blacklist plugin or the 3rd party plugin? If you’re talking about the 3rd party plugin, I’d recommend contacting the author directly.

and from who is the WP’s default blacklist ?

The WP devs. But WP’s blacklist doesn’t delete the comments, it just holds them just for moderation. That is, unless you hacked it somehow. Then the issue is entirely up to you and you alone. When I’m talking about WP’s default blacklist, I mean the one available under Options/Discussions.

well the one i have was as i thought the one everybody was so positive of…
its from …
Plugin Name: Blacklist
Plugin URI: https://www.farook.org
and yes all that helped and tried the comments got trashed….
Triggered by : Author URL: https://alphaoide.com matched //i

I’m telling ya, Spaminator works, and it’s no hassle. But, if you want the headaches, you can keep on trucking!
https://mookitty.co.uk/devblog/

so wp blacklist is junk ?

I’m not saying that wp-blacklist is junk, nor would anyone else, I think. However, if it doesn’t seem to be working for you, then move on to something else. There’s lots of choices out there. While I happily promote Spaminator, it may not be for everyone. I like it because it gets everything in my comment spam list and I turned off the “send me an email when spam is killed” and my inbox is happily devoid of stuff. Once in a while a new spam makes it past, only to be caught by another of MooKitty’s spam tools, and I moderate it, adding the info with one click to my comment spam words list, and that’s it.
So, like I said, if it’s not working, it’s not necessarily a bad plugin. It’s just not doing what you want, and , perhaps, a combination of other plugins and your site design could interact in a negative way. It’s happened before that some plugins step on the toes of other plugins.

@macmanx – no ads ??
As daft as this sounds, people go there for help, not to be sold something. I sort of know the arguments for putting some there, but nah… I like ad-free ??
and John – I have Kitten’s plugins on 4 sites right now, and spam ? What’s that then ? ??

well i have 12 websites running and the ads are welcome …
its a big hobby but some funds in return is nice….
well a new day and didnt get any spam yet but im not gonna laugh to hard…

Okay update….
I just couldnt recist trying figuring out what is wrong..
So the author of the blacklist responded and he came up with the idea to check my blacklist table for a empty line.
And yes there was one….
But that doesnt answers the question how the empty entry got in the blacklist table.
so now the blacklist works…. and even with moderation on…
but its to early to be happy…