Dealing with spam comments

just in case,

after installing
Math Comment Spam Protection Plugin I cut spam 99 %

Or use the one that comes with wordpress, Akismet, https://akismet.com/

Akismet and bad behavior meant that I’ve very rarely had to deal with any spam myself.

If you’re getting the same piece of spam over and over you could copy bits of it into the excluded words filter.

Yeah I do what mrmist suggested. Everytime I get spam comments I pick out words that spammers tend to use (but no one else- you don’t want to block good comments) and put them in the excluded words. Things like “manhood” and “insurance”

I would also suggest adding in places they normally link to. I have a list or things like .info, .ru, .hk, .pl, .it, all as banned terms. It gets rid of much of the spam even before any other sort of filtering.

And if you have one guy in particular who spams non-stop there’s a great plugin for banning people

https://www.justinshattuck.com/bannage/