What are the Automatic Bot Comment SPAM Protection options?

The Automatic Bot Comment SPAM Protection blocks 100% of all automated bot-generated comment SPAM.

These options are located under the main Security Zones navigation menu > SPAM zone. When you click Configure (gear icon) next to Block Bot Comment SPAM component, a configuration sidebar window will open up for you. Then, select Bot SPAM tab.

  Access to Automatic Bot Comment SPAM Protection options

Automatic Bot Comment SPAM Protection options explanations

Option: Block Bot SPAM

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Option: Bot SPAM Action

This option allows you to decide how to categorise comments when identified to be SPAM.

Select one of the 4 options from the drop-down list:

  1. Mark as pending moderation

    This doesn't mark the comment as spam, but instead marks it as "pending" and you will need to approve it. This is not recommended.

  2. Mark as SPAM

    The comment will be immediately moved to the SPAM folder.

  3. Move to trash

    The comment will be immediately moved to the Trash folder.

  4. Reject and redirect

    The comment processing will stop immediately and will not be inserted into the WordPress comments database - the comment submission will be redirected to the website's home page.

To learn more about this feature, read this article here.