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comment spam
hopefully this won’t have to be set for long. please let me know if you have any problems with it — imaclanni@gmail.com. thanks to my dad, i have added two new wordpress plugins that i hope will solve this problem. comments are now back to how they were. thanks dad! |
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I recommend Bad Behavior (http://www.bad-behavior.ioerror.us/) and Comment Timeout (http://www.jamesmckay.net/code/comment-timeout/).
They work along with Akismet to stop spambots before they even get into the queue.
thanks dad! i added both, and haven’t gotten any spam comments since : )
How do you get spam comments?
They’re automated programs that search out pages with comments and then created comments that contain links to spam or malware sites. Google’s page ranking system uses incoming links as a way to determine how important a particular page might be and then places it higher in search results. If you can get 1000 links to page in comments on other people’s sites, you might even be the #1 result for a search. They like to target older posts since Google still counts them but the page owner might not notice.
the weird part about these particular comments was that they had ZERO links in them. just random letters and numbers. really really weird. what’s the point of spam if it doesn’t link you to something?
I’ve noticed that, too. Many spammers buy spamming software and don’t necessarily know how to correctly configure it. So you get untranslated foreign text or comments encoded for a different system (”bbcode” is a frequent one) or some other screw up. If you’re sending out thousands of comments, who has time to verify they all were correct?
that makes sense. ugh, spammers are so lame.
what someone is competing with me for lame commnets!
don’t worry, mom, no one can take the award for lamest comments from you : P