Quasi spam comments
It looks like SixApart took care of comments that are obviously spam (porn/gambling/Viagra). I haven’t gotten one in a while, which is a really nice feeling. But, lately I have been getting one or two quasi spam comments a day. Mostly on old entries, I assume found through Google, random people will post a comment that adds marginal utility to the topic but include a link to their site. And by marginal, I mean none. Nothing to flip the spam switch though, often times a quote like this, “A fool may throw a stone into a well which a hundred wise men cannot pull out.”
This really is a waste of time for those involved because I delete them in a few minutes in the best cases, and a day or two at the worst. Not a whole lot of time to gain the little PageRank a post here might have. So, if you are one of these despots, don’t bother wasting anymore time.
I get the fake comments too, but what is really odd is that all the fake commenters tend to leave comment on just a handful of entries. I guess those entries show up on some google search query they use to find places to spam, or something, but since I closed the discussions on those entries I haven’t really had much trouble with them.
I get lots of those. Yesterday I found 6 of them when I checked the first time in the morning. Today I found 5.
I’m pretty sure they’re being added manually, since I’ve renamed the comment script. I’m already using MT-Blacklist and I’m planning to install James Seng’s plugin which adds a security graphic (http://james.seng.cc/archives/000145.html).
I’d rather not make it more annoying for everyone to post comments. This is where something like TypeKey comes in handy… Haven’t posted before?
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