Pippin Williamson

Modifies the Empty Spam action in WordPress to process the spam deletion in batches, allowing you to delete thousands or even hundreds of thousands of spam comments at once without killing your server.
Have you found a bug or have a suggestion or improvement you’d like to submit? This plugin is available on <a href="https://github.com/pippinsplugins/batch-comment-spam-deletion" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a> and pull requests are welcome!

Batch Comment Spam Deletion

Modifies the Empty Spam action in WordPress to process the spam deletion in batches instead of all at once.

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“Block Spam Comment” definitely blocks comments of bots without settings or Captcha.
The three systems of “Block Spam Comment” using JavaScript make it impossible for bots to post comments, because bots cannot use JavaScript. Spam comments are not saved, so it reduces load on your server and save time to delete spam comments.
You can see how many spam comments were blocked and data about IP and user agent of bots. You also can download the csv file with that data.

Block Spam Comment

Block spam comments definitely without settings or Captcha.

Batch Comment Spam Deletion vs Block Spam Comment