[videoblogging] Re: Spamming via Trackback?

2007-10-15 Thread Frank Sinton
Yes, this happens a lot. I think the term is splog (spam blog). Mark as spam! We've also been seeing a rise of comments that look like comments, but aren't (i.e. will say I really liked your article [article name], but i am not sure I 100% agree - or something similar to that). Regards, -Frank

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Spamming via Trackback?

2007-10-15 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
Yeah...I've seen a lot of faux comments. Some of them get fairly intricate. I'd just never seen this trackback-based spamming before. -- Rhett. http://www.weatherlight.com/greentime http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime Yes, this happens a lot. I think the term is splog (spam blog). Mark as

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Spamming via Trackback?

2007-10-15 Thread Irina
it really blows my mind when the comment spam gets thru my typepad comment captcha -- how do they do that? On 10/15/07, J. Rhett Aultman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yiteah...I've seen a lot of faux comments. Some of them get fairly intricate. I'd just never seen this trackback-based spamming

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Spamming via Trackback?

2007-10-15 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
I'd imagine it's not hard to get your hands on the spam filter algorithm. If you know what spam you and other spammers have been sending, then you can train the filter using it and determine what weights it's giving to different words and phrases, then form a new phrase that scores low on the