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If you run a WordPress blog, you may have noticed a significant uptick in Russian spam comments recently.

If this is an issue and you’re running Akismet (recommended), you can tell Akismet to blacklist comments containing “.ru” in the comment body, name, URL, or e-mail. Go to Options > Discussions. Here’s a screenshot.

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  1. Anarki, November 12, 2008:

    I found this article when I was searching if akismet can filter russian spam comments or it doesnt. Cause I have a lot of spam comments in my own blog.
    That phrase in russian sounds funny. I made a correct replacement for it.
    “А теперь, русские спаммеры, пожалуйста уйдите с моего сайта. Вы раздражаете блогосферу таким поведением.”

  2. Alex, November 12, 2008:

    Thanks for pointing out. Damn Russian spammers :).

  3. Sig, February 21, 2009:

    This post was more helpful than all of my other search results. Thanks!!

  4. Ken Chan, May 26, 2009:

    Wordpress reorganized everything. Now it’s in Settings > Discussions.

  5. Shumaila Rana, July 15, 2009:

    I am also tired of these Russian Comments… and when I translate them using Google I always find them as SPAM :S

    Thanks for the Article… :)

  6. j davis, October 16, 2009:

    I sometimes moderate comments on a friend’s blog. I went on vacation and when I returned there were 2300 russian spam comments. He is using the oldest version of wordpress and I really don’t have time to even use the bulk moderator which still involves deleting each one by clicking a box. Dam russians!! Why do they do stuff like this?

  7. Phil Tyler, February 11, 2010:

    Nice post. I’m so sick of getting hundreds of russian comments. I have to be honest, at first I thought my site was a big hit in russia. I even translated a few of the comments and they actually sounded legit. The screen shot above was a nice touch. Thanks!

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