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Here's my guess. Wordpress allows you to enter the url of your website for a free link to it if it's approved. There are probably enough people who auto approve

Here's my guess. Wordpress allows you to enter the url of your website for a free link to it if it's approved. There are probably enough people who auto approve with a blacklisted set of key phrases for the comment body. A random string is human recognizable but somewhat hard to pattern match.

codetrotter 4y ago
> Wordpress allows you to enter the url of your website for a free link to it if it's approved. The thought crossed my mind as well, because it looks like all of the comments in the OP screenshot have author URLs. But I think Wordpress marks all comment author links with rel=nofollow so in theory there should be no point to spamming links in comments. At least not for any kind of SEO.