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 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 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 <videoblogging%40yahoogroups.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 > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > -- http://geekentertainment.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
