Over the past couple of weeks, I have been receiving 7-9 pages of Spam comments daily, and at least 5 pages of Trash, or more. I have done my best to sift through all the nonsense in the hope of finding genuine comments, and managed to retrieve at least 10 this week.
But I no longer have the time or the inclination to do this, so I am apologising in advance for any of your comments that do not appear.
From today, I will be applying ‘Bulk Delete’ on all of it.
WordPress continues to sneak genuine comments into both of these folders, for no apparent reason.
After searching through ten pages of comments this evening, I found three genuine comments from trusted followers.
So my tip for today is that it might be worth you taking time to check yours.
It is only Thursday, and so far this week I have had to recover 17 genuine comments from either the Spam or Trash folders.
None of these comments contained any ‘banned words’, and none had any links, suspicious or otherwise. It appears that WP is dumping some comments randomly again, so you may all want to check these folders before deleting them in bulk.
I have to break my rule of not posting so much to let you know that many comments from regular blogging friends have gone astray.
I was about to empty my Spam and Trash folders earlier, and I was shocked to find 45 genuine comments had been dumped in there by WordPress. I have just had to manually approve and reply to them all. If you left a comment that I did not acknowledge, the chances are it has been trashed and deleted by WordPress, definitely not by me!
Apologies to everyone who kindly left a comment, then must have thought I had completely ignored it. It wasn’t my fault, and seems to be yet another of those random WP glitches that cause me so much annoyance and frustration.
Anyone wondering my my replies have come so late now knows the answer.
My suggestion to you all is to quickly check both Spam and Trash folders.
Comments from your blogging friends may have been dumped there without you knowing.
Six comments I have left this morning have not appeared.
I might be in ‘Spam Jail’ again.
Please check your folders, and let me out on bail.
I have really had enough this week, to be honest. Keyboard malfunctions, PC crashes, and now this.
Fed up! Seriously.
(Mary, Fraggle, Nicholas, Lara, Rachel, Wilma, Roland, and others)
Seems to be on .org, .com, and self-hosted sites. WP sites appear to be getting through.
beetleypete 