Auto-generation of Spurious Comments in Admin mode

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  theneteconomy · Member · Nov 8, 2011 at 4:27 pm

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  Spurious Comment entries are getting generated in Admin mode (without any Comment related actions).

  Please let me know if you need additional details.
  Blog url: http://theneteconomy.wordpress.com/

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Nov 9, 2011 at 8:40 pm

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  I’m not sure what you mean. How are you sure that comments are being generated without someone commenting?

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  theneteconomy · Member · Nov 22, 2011 at 6:44 am

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  Thanks.

  ‘Spurious Comment entries’ are no longer mysterious… The comment requests are generated when Zemanta recommendations entries selected are from self-blog(?). This causes inconvenience in two ways: (1) recent comments widget gets swamped with self-blog entries, and (2) the commented entries have to be handled – approved/deleted, etc.

  The solution could be to have a Zemanta configuration setting for self-blog recommendation entries.

  Hope this description has enough details.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Nov 22, 2011 at 8:10 pm

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  That is very strange, I’ve never heard of that before. Are you saying that when you add an item from Zemanta, a comment is also added to the post?

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  theneteconomy · Member · Nov 23, 2011 at 11:25 am

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  Not exactly – when a ‘self-blog’ entry is selected from Zemanta suggestions, a Comment entry is created for the corresponding “pingback” entry.

  Here is an example:
  @ http://theneteconomy.wordpress.com/2011/11/09/multi-purpose-crew-vehicle-8/

  When Zemanta ‘self-blog’ recommendation
  “Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (5) (theneteconomy.wordpress.com)”

  was selected, it auto-created a Comment entry. <Approve>ing that Comment entry resulted in the last “pingback”
  @ http://theneteconomy.wordpress.com/2011/09/15/multi-purpose-crew-vehicle-5/

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Nov 23, 2011 at 8:55 pm

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  Ah, that’s normal. A pingback is an automated comment sent to any entry that is linked to in the post. A nice way of saying “This post linked here.”

  To stop that, uncheck “Attempt to notify any blogs linked to from the article” from Settings -> Discussion in your blog’s Dashboard.

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  theneteconomy · Member · Nov 28, 2011 at 5:37 am

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  The problem is resolved.

  Thanks!

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Nov 28, 2011 at 7:22 am

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  You’re welcome!