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 http://www.mefeedia.com/user/franks/ - What are you watching? --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "J. Rhett Aultman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Since Greentime is supported in (a very, very tiny) part by Google Ads, we > did not feel right installing Akismet to handle our spam for us. I've > gotten pretty good at weeding through Greentime's spam, but I came across > something I haven't seen before. > > It looks like someone's trying to spam via a trackback. The person or > thing in question seems to have set up a blog that does nothing but scrape > the subject line and an except of the body from other blogs, then link to > them. The blog is covered with ads, so I'm guessing the idea is that > people will approve the trackbacks and then there will be lots of inbound > links to the ad-laden blog. > > The blog in question is at http://apartment.wpbloggers.com/ > > Has anyone else seen this sort of thing before? > > -- > Rhett. > http://www.weatherlight.com/greentime > http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime >
