Saturday, January 2, 2010

Anti-Spam: Deleting multipe comments in blogger

@YaronNaveh

I always love to see comments to my posts:




However when the comments are nothing but SPAM...




I have recently needed to delete 100+ comments from my blogger account. Unfortunately blogger only allows to delete one comment at a time. This is really not helping when I need to delete 100+ comments.

The trick is to use a browser that supports tabs (almost all of them today) and to middle click the basket icon near each comment we want to delete. It will now open in a new tab:



We still need to approve the deletion in that tab, but at least we do not need the extra clicks of returning to the original post and finding the next comment.

@YaronNaveh

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2 comments:

Moshe said...

What about automating the comment removal process (with, for example, HP QuickTest Pro)? You can use some fixed substring of spam messages as a criterion for removal.

Yaron Naveh (MVP) said...

@Moshe - I'm not in the business of SPAM removal tools...