Reporting spammer Gravatar profiles?

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  littlebrownettebird · Member · Dec 19, 2013 at 10:08 am

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  I’m being hit with Like spam from Gravatar profiles that all link to the same MAKE MONIEZ NOW! website. The site isn’t hosted on wp.com, but the profiles are canned (girl’s name, stock photo of a pretty girl, random quote, trash website the only link) and clearly exist to spam that website everywhere they can get it. Is there an appropriate place to report them?

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  timethief · Member · Dec 19, 2013 at 6:13 pm

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  I tagged this thread for a Staff response. WordPress.com and Gravatar accounts are one in the same. Our blog posts are attracting fake followers who are like button spammers. Some are make money sploggers and scammers and then there are the others. Currently, I have a courtesan ie. a prostitute liking my posts but we cannot delete their likes or gravatars, all we can do is disable likes on our posts.

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  kraftbj · Staff · Dec 19, 2013 at 8:38 pm

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  Hi Gypsy,

  Is there a particular post you can point me to and/or the gravatar profiles in question? If the profiles violate our Terms of Service, we’ll handle them accordingly.

  Thanks!

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  littlebrownettebird · Member · Dec 19, 2013 at 10:00 pm

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  These two most recently:

  http://en.gravatar.com/pattywhawthorne
  http://en.gravatar.com/bohapuop

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  kraftbj · Staff · Dec 19, 2013 at 10:17 pm

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  Thanks!

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  timethief · Member · Dec 19, 2013 at 10:24 pm

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  @kraftbj
  I am so sorry that gravatar link was an error!

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  kraftbj · Staff · Dec 19, 2013 at 10:47 pm

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  @timethief – no problem. :-)

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  timethief · Member · Dec 19, 2013 at 10:49 pm

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  Will you please delete it as I feel absolutely terrible – I posted the wrong one and now I cannot find the correct one. :(

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  kraftbj · Staff · Dec 19, 2013 at 10:52 pm

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  ::This is not the link you’re looking for::

  An early Christmas gift ;-)

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  timethief · Member · Dec 19, 2013 at 10:58 pm

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  Thanks so much as now my stomach ache will go away. Everything I do wrong make my stomach sick and tonight hubby is cooking so I don’t want to miss dinner. :D

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  littlebrownettebird · Member · Dec 19, 2013 at 11:34 pm

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  @kraftbj I’d say you jingled my bells, but my husband probably wouldn’t be pleased. :)

  Thanks!

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  kraftbj · Staff · Dec 20, 2013 at 3:50 pm

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  Haha. Let’s stay away from getting in trouble before the holidays. Cheers!

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  justjennifer · Member · Dec 20, 2013 at 6:59 pm

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  @Brandon, shall we then continue to post here to flag unsavory or spammy gravatars since we can no longer report these directly on Gravatar?

  /having visions of floodgates opening…

  @tt, hope you had a nice dinner. :)

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  kraftbj · Staff · Dec 20, 2013 at 8:05 pm

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  Let’s try not to. :-) At the end of the day, they’re still a Terms of Service issue, so not something for the forums.

  You can report a Gravatar profile (e.g. http://en.gravatar.com/username) at http://wordpress.com/abuse/ while we work on the behind the scenes work needed for direct reporting via Gravatar.com again.