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Bulk analyzing or How to deal with huge spam amounts #281

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Zodiac1978 opened this issue May 13, 2019 · 9 comments · May be fixed by #374
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Bulk analyzing or How to deal with huge spam amounts #281

Zodiac1978 opened this issue May 13, 2019 · 9 comments · May be fixed by #374
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@Zodiac1978
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If people are not updating ASB they will end up with huge amounts of spam. In my case 20k+

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Even with post per page set to 200 this will end up in 100 pages which need to be scanned for correct comments. More than 200 will end up in a "Request too long" error on most server configs.

So how do we solve this issue for our users? Bulk analyzing?

I found https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-bulk-delete/ but I need to buy the Pro version to filter the comments. Deleting all comments is an easy task, but there could be valid comments in between ...

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Are you asking for a "delete all spam comments" button within ASB? That should be easy to do. Or do you want to have a "delete all spam comments with spam reason X" filter?

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We do have the "Delete comments by spam reasons" option. And we have the "Delete existing spam x days" option. Having a combination of both would be nice (so not delete comments with "any" reason after x days, but only those with a specific reason).

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Are you asking for a "delete all spam comments" button within ASB?

No.

Or do you want to have a "delete all spam comments with spam reason X" filter?

No. These are pending comments. So I would like to re-analyze them. And maybe some sort of "This is spam, please mark every comment with the same content/author/IP as spam too"-button, or something else which is preserving valid comments which could be in this huge amount of pending comments. There is no spam reason for pending comments, so this is not what I want.

We do have the "Delete comments by spam reasons" option. And we have the "Delete existing spam x days" option. Having a combination of both would be nice (so not delete comments with "any" reason after x days, but only those with a specific reason).

This does not help for those pending comments. This would help for new comments only.

@2ndkauboy
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Ah, now I get it. That would really be a very key functionality, especially if you install the plugin after you've already received lots of spam.

@websupporter
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That would be a cool feature.
If its okay, I would label it in some 3.x milestone?

@websupporter websupporter added this to the 3.1 milestone Jun 20, 2019
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Zodiac1978 commented Jul 31, 2019

20k seems to be a "normal" spam wave ...
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@florianbrinkmann
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I just looked at the comments list screen and thought about where to put those actions. In the first step, I would begin with the action to re-analyse all pending comments. I thought about putting that as a button in the AB settings screen, because in most cases, that would be a one-time action, nothing that the user needs often.

What do you think?

@Zodiac1978
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Not sure. The edit-comments.php page is very full. Not easy to add a new button. Although this is the first page I would look at if I have comment spam and not the setting page of ASB.

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planetahuevo commented Feb 8, 2021

@Zodiac1978 this feature is when you did not have ASB installed and you install it after you have 20k spam comments.
So it makes sense to be in settings:
You detect the spam, install the plugin, configure the settings and then from the same page, run it for current pending comments button.
Job done! :)

PS: I just installed this plugin on a project for those reasons, and I will use WP CLI to remove all comments on pending, probably losing some real comments in the process. I won´t even go into the edit-comments page at all.

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