I’ve got a WP client »»]]> Update: I’m taking a bit of a break from this service – but if there is an emergency, I will still do it.

I’ve got a WP client who I have admin access to and had left my own email address in the admin section. So, needless to say, I get the moderation queue notifications. Recently, that blog has been getting harrassed by permutations on one theme. They all go to something-top-pharmacy (dot net), and I’ve seen hundreds of permutations of it. It was this particular client who inspired me to go and change the moderation.php to make it check ‘delete’ by default, instead of ‘do nothing’. I got tired of clicking.

So, I did a search for this bottom-feeding-scum-pharmacy along with the term “comment spam” to see if anyone had gotten tired enough of them to come up with some sort of block (from the site, not just via a blacklist or moderation queue). Didn’t find any, but boy did I find blogs, mostly MT blogs, with lots and lots and lots of comment spam they’d never gotten rid of.

So, I’m offering a new service. Call it “blog cleaning lady, if you will”. If you have a blog with spam problems, or know someone who does, please read on. And if you like the idea, please link, so I don’t get tempted to start spamming blogs with ‘remove your spam’ offers.

I’ll charge about 1/2 cent (US) per spam to get rid of the stuff, with a minimim of $5 and a maximum of $150 (rounded up or down to the nearest dollar). The max is because once you get up into tens of thousands of spams, you have so many ‘like’ spams that can be found with one specific regexp search that you can delete many hundreds at a time… It doesn’t really take me much longer to delete 50,000 spams than 20,000. The ones that really take the time are the ones that sneak in once or twice and leave “nice site!” and just one link to their site. The min is because even if you have only 10 spams, I’ve still got to look through everything to find them. And if you have only 10, you probably don’t need me anyway.