Although; if you were running your wiki site via WordPress; and you forgot to disable comments… spammers often try to clog your site with these comments that don’t have a specific meaning. You just kept writing your posts like usual. However; you must’ve forgot to remove these spam comments. If you didn’t remove them; your site’s database will be clogged,–causing your server costs to go up.
You Started Building Your Wiki Site Via WordPress
So, I am still running my wiki site as a way to sort my character creations, fictional place creations, and even group these characters who have families!
Wikipedia is a known wiki where people help improve wiki articles. However; spammers tend to edit these pages, and cause vandalism to erupt. Typically, anti-spam measures are very important.
I’ve experimented turning off these comments as a way to stop these spammers, and that saved me minutes from reviewing these comments, and removing these spam comments.
Spam Comments Rising
Out of nowhere; you discovered these comments on your WordPress dashboard, and you are just wondering about these comments.. Most likely; these comments are written via a different language… for this instance; Russian language!
Well, spammers often do this kind of trickery, and use VPNs for their own greed.
If you don’t check your comments on a regular basis; you will get this messy experience:
- Singling out legitimate comments – This is a serious work what you, and other site administrators should do, and it can result to deleting legitimate comments,–causing you to lose your visitors’ comments who are legitimate. Trust me; that happens to ALL websites.
- Database usage – Your database can be heavy, and your storage via a server can be used up. Removing spam comments on a regular basis is key to ensure your site runs as fast as possible (depending on what hosting provider you’re using).
- If comments are left to be allowed to be published on your posts without review – Users will get a difficult experience. Spammers can flood your comments section of your posts what you write,–causing your site to be cluttered by these spam comments.
If you were posting wiki content on your WordPress site; and you are avoiding this problem; follow these steps:
- Edit each post, and disallow comments from being posted.
- Go to your “discussions” section of your website settings, and disable comments by disallowing comments on newer posts.
- Confirm if no spammers are posting comments. If you successfully stopped comment spam; you are done.
You can still get visitors on your website
Your visitors can still read your wiki articles, and you can still write new articles like usual. However; you need to ensure your posts are relevant when interlinking them.
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You can still get visitors on your website
Your visitors can still read your wiki articles, and you can still write new articles like usual. However; you need to ensure your posts are relevant when interlinking them.