[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #21901: Empty Spam from Dashboard

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#21901: Empty Spam from Dashboard
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 Reporter:  bhoogterp        |       Owner:
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General          |     Version:  3.4.2
 Severity:  trivial          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                   |
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Comment (by knutsp):

 Core only has a simple blacklist of words (actually sub-strings) to
 determine what is spam or not. As WordPress says in the intro text: Using
 "press" in the blacklist will mark comments that contain "WordPress" as
 spam.

 Akismet, and other anti-spam plugins, are far more intelligent. You can
 already instruct Akismet to automatically delete all spam on old posts.

 If Akismet introduced a button on the dashboard to empty spam, I would use
 it frequently. If I didn't have Akismet active, and just some blacklisted
 words, I would not dare using such a button right from the dashboard. But
 while viewing the list of spam comments, you have a fair chance to spot a
 legitimate comment before hitting "Empty spam".

 If there is no spam after this button has executed, it could redirect to
 the previous page, not necessarily the dashboard (not everybody uses the
 dashboard as a home/central for navigation since the navigation menu is
 always there). This would require a redirect parameter to be maintained
 throughout the comments section, just in case you want to finish off with
 a delete spam action. This, I think, would be too complicated for such a
 trivial enhancement.

 Just curious: Is there a reason to empty spam on a daily basis? If the
 answer is yes, wouldn't you really need some form of automatic deletion? A
 plugin that always deletes spam by some trigger would be quite easy to
 make.

 And there are plugins that avoids spam to enter the database in the first
 place, by either some sophisticated script action or by captcha. Then the
 number of spam comments in WordPress is always zero.

 Suggests wontfix.

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