Comment Abuse
July 30, 2004
Comment spamming has quickly become a blogger's worst nightmare. Even if you aren't familiar with the term you've probably seen it. The spam usually looks innocent enough, "Hey, nice site!" or "I was browsing and came across your site." But they generally leave links or addresses to porn sites.
Do they think you will suddenly flock to their XXX site because they ran across a hard-to-find link to internet porn? Nope. The main reason they leave comment spam and leave huge numbers of it per site is to make the Google search engine more aware of it. All I am to these scumbags is a bit of free advertising.
I apologize if you happen to see one before I'm able to clean them out but after receiving 463 pieces of comment spam in just under 2.5 days, it's hard to react very swiftly.
Still using MT, are you not using MT-blacklist? It is an excellent plugin, especially if you keep your spam list up to date.
Even if I don't use it, I like WP's flexability with perma-links so there are no patterns involved with numbers.
F*** SPAM! :)
Posted by: Louie on July 31, 2004 09:14 PMI *am* using MT-Blacklist. That's just what has gotten through.
-Dan
Posted by: Daniel on July 31, 2004 09:31 PM