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Its a sad moment when you first have to explain to your mother/client/etc that no, Discount Oakley Sunglasses didn't really enjoy your superb post. Its a shockingly effective spam tactic. People cannot resist praise.

Why does it matter if Discount Oakley Sunglasses really enjoyed your post or not? As long as the writer feels more motivated to continue writing afterwards, then what do you possibly achieve by telling him or her that "oh, don't believe in that compliment, it's CG'd". Yes, I agree with you that it is a sad moment when you have to break through people's ignorance make them see the ugly side of the world, but it's sad…

If there is a worse thing than a blog with no comments, it's a blog with only spam comments.

They're the cobwebs of the internet.

Re: Comment spam random text template

#32
post #25
post #8

Its a sad moment when you first have to explain to your mother/client/etc that no, Discount Oakley Sunglasses didn't really enjoy your superb post. Its a shockingly effective spam tactic. People cannot resist praise.

Why does it matter if Discount Oakley Sunglasses really enjoyed your post or not? As long as the writer feels more motivated to continue writing afterwards, then what do you possibly achieve by telling him or her that "oh, don't believe in that compliment, it's CG'd". Yes, I agree with you that it is a sad moment when you have to break through people's ignorance make them see the ugly side of the world, but it's sad…

Because the comment, when approved, can affect their website negatively.

If you are the trusted authority/advisor (for a mother/client/etc) then you should let them know.

Re: Comment spam random text template

#35

What is the point of this? I thought the point of spamming was to insert links to your website or promote some product. This just looks like random compliments.

From http://codex.wordpress.org/Comments_in_WordPress

Depending on your site's settings, comments display slightly differently from site to site. The basic comment form includes:

Name

Email

Website

Comment

Re: Comment spam random text template

#36
Add in dynamic content (like mentioning a blurb from a past blog post, or a tweet from the writer, or - even better - a tweet @ the author from someone else prominent) and you've got yourself one slick marketer... erm, I mean spammer.

Re: Comment spam random text template

#37

Man... I'd actually get to an ATM, but I took during supervised visitation to see if they actually had to talk to any judgment. I don't know what is written so we could draw the appropriate details. I had the Sponge Bob Lego set. Not only did they change the social worker again - if lowering the lien can be cancelled or reduced, Windows Vista would not let that get in contact with me. Will we ever know the rest? I to…

Markov chain?

I'm going to make one when I get home today.

Re: Comment spam random text template

#39
post #35

What is the point of this? I thought the point of spamming was to insert links to your website or promote some product. This just looks like random compliments.

From http://codex.wordpress.org/Comments_in_WordPress Depending on your site's settings, comments display slightly differently from site to site. The basic comment form includes: Name Email Website Comment

I have the website field turned off -- it's not visible if you are a real user using the form, and "website" doesn't show up next to comments.

But I still get a lot of spam containing the website field; it seems like the bot is just automatically submitting POST requests with website included. This should be trivial to detect -- is there a plugin that just immediately deletes all of these out of hand before passing them on to an antispam tool?

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