February 26, 2003

Snakes in the Garden

Just opened my mail to find notifications of a bunch of slimy XXX URLs commented onto about half my blog entries. Promptly banned the IP (and wiped the comments).

Is there a term for comment-spamming a blog? Does this happen often?

Posted by mgk at February 26, 2003 10:33 PM
Comments

Yikes, I haven't seen that before.

I have, however, began to notice spam and under-the-radar advertising in referrer logs, most recently for the new Snoop Dogg album. :)

b

Posted by: brandon at February 28, 2003 08:47 AM | Link to Comment

I haven't seen it, but have expected it. I have seen spam on discussion groups and web-based discussions boards, so why not on the comments and the referer logs of blogs? Particularly with all the attention blogs have been getting, I'd say it was just a matter of time before it showed up.

In one discussion site I saw you have to repeat a random number generated by the program, in order to post. I have no idea if this really works, or if it is bypassed by the spam-bots already.

Torill

Posted by: torill at March 3, 2003 03:47 AM | Link to Comment

Check out ScriptyGoddess, a great site for those needing scripts in MT.

http://www.scriptygoddess.com/archives/001603.php

This link should give you some insight to the comment spamming. Good Luck.

Posted by: cricket at April 1, 2003 07:56 AM | Link to Comment

here is a free tip:
if you don't know what you are talking about don't post online.
I'm sorry I don't buy what you said but it's to cheap.

Posted by: phentermine at October 1, 2003 05:14 PM | Link to Comment
Due to the proliferation of comment spam, I've had to close comments on this entry. If you would like to leave comment, please send email to me at mgk =at= umd =dot= edu. Thank you.