Re: Advance Comment Spam

[Imri Goldberg <lorgandon () gmail com>]

Yes, I get those as well. Akismet kills most of these for me.
Another possible reason is that sometimes* only the first comment by
someone requires approval, and afterwards more comments from the same
source are allowed.

An amusing anecdote - I once wasn't sure the comments were working
properly on my blog, so I tried writing some test comment. It was pretty
hard writing something short that would pass Akismet. However, my test
comment did end up in the suspected spam. Made me feel pretty silly.

* sometimes == I don't remember if I saw it happening, I think I did,
and I think I saw somewhere an option to configure it that way as well.
So I'm not completely sure about that.
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Larry Seltzer wrote:
> In the last few hours I got a couple of comments on my PCMag blog
> (http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/)
>  
>     Commenter Name: Whatever-ishere
>     Commenter URL: http://www.whateverishere.com
>     Comment: thanks for the GREAT post! Very useful...
>  
> The first comment came from 79.140.80.79, the second from 79.140.80.53,
> but I'm not sure that matters.
>
> The comment is idiotic ass-kissing, even if the blog posts were good
> ones. We're running Sedo, which rated the comment as ham.
>
> So I looked into the URL whateverishere.com, and it's unregistered. It's
> my theory that they want to get a bunch of comments into the system
> before there's anything objectionable at the URL, then they register the
> site.
>
> Anyone seen this? Does my theory make sense?
>
> Larry Seltzer
> eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
> http://security.eweek.com/ 
> http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/
> Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
> larry.seltzer () ziffdavisenterprise com
>
>
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