Comments on: Oh, The Things Spammers Will Say

By: Taylor Blue

Taylor Blue — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 02:23:02 +0000

I hate spammers. I have quite a few on my site but I feel horrible to delete them. But thanks for these tips…now I feel like I can go delete them. BTW I just found your site tonight and I love it. Bookmarked it already!!

By: ian

ian — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:30:29 +0000

I produce a green travel blog, and recently after posting a less than favorable review of a new product I got a comment from a woman praising the product – it seemed genuine enough; but several days later I got another comment from what appeared to different woman praising the product – but both comments came from the same IP address. This is another form of comment spam in my opinion – the undercover PR rep, posters who pretend to be genuine readers but actually have vested interests.

By: How to Cope with Pain

How to Cope with Pain — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 12:13:35 +0000

I have a medical site, and probably get more than my share of the “buy viagra” type spam. However, when I got “buy this drug” spam in several foreign languages, decided to take it as reaching some level in relevance in the blog universe. How’s that for re-framing a problem?

By: Pete White

Pete White — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:16:58 +0000

We worst ones I have been getting recently are in foreign languages (I think Russian) often with a link to a phishing site.

I get a lot of one line spam posts with no links which i often find strange.

By: Webomatica

Webomatica — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:02:04 +0000

The sneakiest spam comment yet – I have a regular commenter named Ross. Then I received a comment from “Ross” that seemed a little off topic. But when I checked the URL it was not the same Ross.

I don’t think the spammer was intentionally mimicking the regular reader (probably just coincidence) but that comment slipped through my initial spammy comment check.

Yep spam comments are frustrating!

By: Char

Char — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:50:05 +0000

Robyn – glad you found it helpful!!

Ryan – it is a combination hard-coded and plugin. Here is the post I wrote about it:

Getting Sticky with Tabbed Content

By: Ryan Caldwell

Ryan Caldwell — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:42:05 +0000

Char, I love the “The Best of Essential Keystrokes” after each post. How do you do that? Is it a plugin?

By: Robyn

Robyn — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:41:09 +0000

Char, I was really glad to get more insights about spamming. Goodness only knows I have enough of it on my phone, mail and email. I’ve been a little naive, so your post is most informative! Thanks.