In December a fellow blogger asked how to find their spam comments folder. And as it is rather hidden, I thought it would make a very good blogging post.
(You should be checking the folder regularly. There was a point when Blogger marked at least 500 of my comments spam, going back several years. While it took a while to get through that backlog, it was better than letting them languish in spam prison. And since I check the folder daily, I can keep up with rescuing many comments that don't belong there but get sent there for vague reasons.)
You'll click on your "Comments" in your sidebar. Sometimes Blogger hides the sidebar, so if yours is hidden, first you'll need to open it:
Click on the "hamburger" in the top left hand corner. That'll open up the sidebar:
Comments is the third thing in the list. Click on it, and you have a list of all the comments to your blog, in order of posting. Next, you'll go to the arrow next to "All":
Click on that:
And on that pop up menu, you'll click on "Spam". As you can see, at this moment I have zero spam comments:
Yay!
But not every day is like that. Sometimes I open up that pop up menu to find:
I click on "Spam":
And there's two comments that are not spam. (I redacted them so as to not call out the commenters.) See how one says "4 hours ago" and one is from December? I've had times when the comments that were in the spam folder were from 2014. And I'm not even exaggerating a little bit.
Move your cursor over the day or date of the comment to get:
The trash can is to trash the comment if it's actually spam. (Sometimes it's spam.) But mostly things get caught in the folder on accident, so click on the check mark to publish the comment to your blog:
Verify that you want to publish, and it's done. The comment will now appear on your blog.
If you don't already, get in the habit of checking your spam folder. I don't know why it happens, but with some regularity Blogger sweeps comments into the spam folder that do not belong there.
How often do you check your spam folder? Is there another blogging topic you'd like me to tackle?
I’ve had real comments wind up in the spam folder and spam comments slip through the filter. And I’ve had old comments reclassified as spam …
ReplyDeleteI have had the same to all of that. Hence why I double check the spam folder daily.
DeleteI check the spam folder every morning. Thankfully, not many comments go there anymore. For a while a lot of the comments were going there.
ReplyDeleteI have checked it now and then but hadn't checked it in quite some time so thanks for the reminder.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing this, Liz. I check it fairly often, at least every other day.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad to hear more people do check their spam folders frequently.
DeleteI do clear the spam regularly.
ReplyDeleteI've never looked for spam ones. Mine just pulls up a list needing moderation. (Which I have set to any post a week or older.)
ReplyDeleteOkay, just found the spam folder. 380! Guess I need to start going through it as it's a mix of friends and spam...
ReplyDeleteHopefully not jinxing myself-I don't check the spam folder regularly enough because I have my comments on moderation and I get emails - but I see I somehow got unsubscribed from those emails. So I'll have to attend to that, and, in the meantime, my spam folder was empty today. Thank you for the reminder.
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