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 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 [email protected], "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 > > > >
