Comment on post is excerpt from same post?

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  jaglover7 · Member · Aug 16, 2013 at 5:12 pm

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  A comment on one of my posts consists of an excerpt from the same post. It appears to be sent by the post itself (not me, but the actual post).

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  timethief · Member · Aug 16, 2013 at 5:14 pm

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  That’s a very common spam comment we are receiving these days. Mark it as spam.

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  timethief · Member · Aug 16, 2013 at 5:15 pm

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  Hold it! Maybe you are referring to self-pings and just don’t know what pingbacks are and how to stop self pings.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/comments/pingbacks/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/comments/pingbacks/#can-i-stop-self-pings

  I simply approve the ones I want to keep and delete the others.

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  jaglover7 · Member · Aug 16, 2013 at 5:19 pm

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  Thank you very much! I see the problem now–I linked to another post within my new post, and WP must have read it as a ping back.

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  timethief · Member · Aug 16, 2013 at 5:21 pm

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  Yes, that’s exactly what a self a pingback results from.