Little Green Footballs Dictionary

Periodically someone needs to clear the “spam queue” in Akismet. Akismet filters comments left by known spammers and suspicious comments, holding them in a queue.

If you go into the admin menu and scroll down the right side you will see a statement with two links : “Akismet [link to Akismet site] has protected your site from 207 [link to spam control panel] spam comments.  By clicking the link on the number it takes you to the control panel where you can skim through the comments and approve comments that are not spam first, then come back and delete all others.

This is a collaborative, community effort to catalog and combat known spammers - when you delete spam it gets recorded in Akismet’s DB of spammers so you are doing community service for all bloggers by clearing the spam comments. Comments you approve go through then to the comment queue. It takes a strong stomach to actually read the spam, usually you can easily tell the spam because it has multiple links.

Most of it is trying to link to porn, drugs, or gambling sites, occasionally phishing and virus sites. I would recommend never letting curiosity get the better of your common sense by clicking a spam link from the control panel. If you just have to see, cut and paste the link into a fresh brower session, and get out of the admin in the session you are in first.

If you notice today there are three comments from Mike C. that erroneously got caught in the spam filters, I approved those and you can see that he is requesting removal from the H/T section. (comments 50-51) On the spam panel you will also see three tabs, one of them is comments awaiting moderation — depending on how commenting is set up, you might have to check that tab as well occasionally — it will show up with a number instead of a zero if there are comments to be checked.

I would like to get meta tags set up, but the meta editing section works only for posts, not pages. The header to the page is only accessible through the innards of wordpress, so there’s not a way to add the meta below in the keywords section of the page header at this time. It’s really not that important as most search engines ignore meta keywords now, but it helps a small bit in notoriety and authority. What’s better are links to the page from other blogs. So periodically remind lizard bloggers to link to the main LGF Dictionary Page, and never to this blog posting part periodically.

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