Fri 26 May 2006 - To those leaving comment spam
There appear to be some people manually leaving comment spam here. It’s written to look relevant to the post it’s on, and includes a link to one of a series of near-identical web-sites obviously set-up just to get attention from search engines, eg a “Splog.”
Now hear this: If your comment leaves a URL that goes to a site that looks suspicious to me, I will be either removing the URL when I approve your comment, or at my exclusive discretion, deleting your comment altogether.
- Numerous spam comments containing obviously automated irrelevant comments and lots of links get deleted anyway.
- My other comment rules are here.
- Post on this type of human comment spam at geekrant.org, including examples of the sites involved.
May 27th, 2006 at 4:36pm
Daniel,
Given that you’re using WordPress I suggest you install the Akismet plugin (www.akismet.com) and Bad Behaviour (www.ioerror.us/software/bad-behavior/) the combination of the two almost eradicated spam on my site.
Akismet tracks spam through a centrally administered blacklist and Bad Behaviour prevents spambots from accessing a site.
Alex