Title: Comments Database Crashed
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Comments Database Crashed

 *  [glennk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/glennk/)
 * (@glennk)
 * [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-database-crashed/)
 * I have that much spam in my comments ection that it seems to have crashed the
   database area for comments. The result is I cant get into to delete the spam.
 * Is it possible to empty the database area for comments and start again.
 * This time I will make sure I activate the spam plugin

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 *  [Don Anastas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/javaman1/)
 * (@javaman1)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-database-crashed/#post-688274)
 * Activate Akismet it works.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Don Anastas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/javaman1/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-database-crashed/#post-688274)
 * Status: not resolved

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