Comments on: Comment Spam tastes weird

By: teeth grinding

teeth grinding — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 10:25:54 +0000

maybe some newbie testing its new spamming bot

By: RickNHS

RickNHS — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:39:11 +0000

As I’m sure you are well aware.. the problem with do-follow blogs are the spammers. Personally I think that the do-follow movement is great for getting traffic and readers, but at the very least commenters should read the blog!

By: Cricket Videos

Cricket Videos — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 08:27:59 +0000

Well these things happen with sites. I have numerous blogs and sites and i was in a dilemma whether to allow links with keywords or not. I decided to allow it. Because my traffic stays high that way and i spose it is only right to reward someone for taking time out and commenting on your site/blog.

Rami

By: John Hunter

John Hunter — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 11:16:18 +0000

Yes, I have the same thing happen. I figure somehow the posts get into some database and then are spammed like crazy.

I believe the best explanation for the no link spam (without any obvious explanation) is that the spammers are trying to confuse the spam filters. The spam filters (Akismet etc.) use bayesian statistics which looks for common patterns in the spam. By creating spam that is not like real spam it might confuse the filters. Akismet doesn’t seem to have much problem with it though (maybe because Akismet also looks at thing like where the spam is coming from - what servers…).

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 01:38:47 +0000

I just checked the spam filter again, and there are 10 more of these weird comments on the same post. Any ideas about this one anyone?

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 19:41:16 +0000

Yes this is very curious.I don’t think is a newbie spammer.Maybe someone will enlight us.I would like to find out why is spamming without a link.
Cheers,

By: Sofcore

Sofcore — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:25:28 +0000

I have seen those comments before, and I am also baffled by them.

Could it be a newbie spammer who just hasn’t gotten “it” right yet?

Regards,

By: Aimee

Aimee — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:49:27 +0000

I noticed that! Very weird…