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So how come most of the lines don't have a link to their website? I mean most of the lines congratulate the author for their excellent blog post.. Is that reall
by d0m 13y ago
So how come most of the lines don't have a link to their website? I mean most of the lines congratulate the author for their excellent blog post.. Is that really spam?
- zalew 13y agoYes, the comment author links the page in their profile or sig (depending on the platform), posting generic praise comments is a huge chance they won't be deleted.
- stevekemp 13y agoTypically they'll submit links in the "Link" or "Name" field. But as you say the majority of spam submissions will actually include a link in the body of the comment too. (Actually many comments include the link with numerous variations: BBCode, HTML, and even Markdown formatted. As a heuristic it is easy to write off spam that uses three or more different linking stratagies - I do that in my blog-spam detection service @ http://blogspam.net/ http://blogspam.net/ )
- d0m 13y agoI see what you did there ;-) But thanks for the explanation
- BorisMelnik 13y agospammed this post about spam with his anti-spam service? edit: wordpress plugin looks perfect for a few of my blogs
- mesozoic 13y agoMany times they post just to see if the blog has auto approval or not. Or if the blog has auto approval after 1 approved post they'll post an innocuous one then later come back with the links once they'll get auto approved.