id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
15368	Make Discussion Settings > Comment Blacklist retroactive	thomas.galvin		"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."	feature request	closed	normal		Comments	3.0.1	minor	wontfix