[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #15368: Make Discussion Settings > Comment Blacklist retroactive

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#15368: Make Discussion Settings > Comment Blacklist retroactive
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 Reporter:  thomas.galvin    |       Owner:                 
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  new            
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Comments         |     Version:  3.0.1          
 Severity:  minor            |    Keywords:                 
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 I've found that I often receive many spam comments at the same time, all
 with very similar content. If the spam filters don't catch them, I
 manually mark them all as spam, and then try to add the common, "duh, yes,
 this is obviously spam" text to the Discussion Settings > Comment
 Blacklist.

 For example, if I received the following comments:

 * Buy cheap toner cartridges!

 * We have toner cartridges cheap!

 * You won't believe the prices on these toner cartridges!

 * TSA-fooling toner cartridges real cheap!

 * etc etc, a few dozen more times

 I would manually mark them all as spam, then add "toner cartridges" to the
 blacklist, to stop these comments in the future. I also do the same with
 IP addresses that have flooded me with spam.

 It would be nice if there was a way to make the blacklist retroactive, so
 that it would go through all of my existing comments and automatically
 spam the ones containing the offending text.

 I realize that this is basically what a bayesian filter is supposed to do,
 but I have found that I am often able to identify patterns that the
 filters miss.

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