What happens when you tag a comment as SPAM?

  • I am faily new to WordPress and have a question about SPAM. I don’t use any anti-spamming measures (yet). However, I do have moderation turned on. When someone submits a comment, it goes into the moderation queue. When I review the comment, I have the opportunity to tick “approve” “spam” “delete” or “defer until later”.

    My question is, what happens when I tick “spam”? Does it block that IP address? If so, if I accidentally do this, is there a way to unblock it?

    I tried to search Codex on this, but the search engine seems to be broke. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

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  • Comments marked as spam stay in your database, marked as spam. Presumably it’s used for some kind of heuristic analysis of subsequent comments… I’ve taken to deleting mine, simply because they bloat the database too much for my liking! (Plus my WP install is set to require users to have a previously approved comment to post un-moderated, so it’s no big deal).

    It’s so plugins and such can use them to compare to new comments, for example Spam Karma 2.

    I accidentally marked a comment as spam and need to correct this error. I don’t see a way to do it in the WordPress interface, so I assume I must delete the IP/email from the dbase. How do I access the dbase?

    Check out:

    https://www.chrisjdavis.org/2005/03/03/mass-delete-15/

    It’s a plugin dedicated to deleting spam comments, but you can ‘unspam’ with it as well.

    Note that a plugin like Akismet also lets you unspam comments.

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