Shower of Spam
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Just wondering if this is happening to everybody today – my spam filter is getting bombarded today, I’ve already deleted maybe 50 or so. Never happened before, are we having some kind of a bad alignment of stars, or is it something to do with my blog in particular?
Thanks for your input on this…
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The amount of spam that Akismet catches doesn’t bother me. I can quickly scan it and remove any false positives and there are rarely any . Trust me when I say that in years past we had hundreds to delete after Akismet caught them everyday.
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Oh, I am very glad Akismet catches and it’s true, rarely there is a “false positive”.
I was just wondering if there’s something going on today in the blogosphere that made spam posts show up at a much higher frequency.
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Ok, now let me ask you another question…. today I got a comment that went to the spam folder, but I removed it and decided to allow it, because it seemed valid. Interestingly enough, today happens to be my “shower of spam” day (granted, from your post I see that 50 is nothing, but for my baby blog that was a lot more than any other day since I started 10 months ago :-).
do you think that the post I allowed was somehow connected to the extra spam flow? Would it help if I deleted that comment?
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Yes, it did. Very frequently, spammers will try an innoccuous “test post” and if it’s approved, they’ll go nuts on the site.
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Have you read Jonathan Bailey’s – Not Good: Human Spam And Dumb Bloggers Are Killing Comments And Trackbacks? http://www.blogherald.com/2010/04/23/human-spam-and-dumb-bloggers-killing-comments-and-trackbacks/
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Very interesting article, timethief.
I will delete that comment and be a lot more careful with approving stuff that was placed in the spam folder to start with.
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It’s both interesting and very sad. It seems many bloggers have been so desperate to receive comments that they have not been discerning and are actually posting pingback and trackback spam. Consequently, the spammers get their toe in the door and then let loose their barrage of BS. :(
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I don’t quite understand what the spammers gain from it. When I decided to check out where that suspect link was coming from, it turns out it is an account in Japan. If there is some company behind, I have no idea, but it seems to be a site that assembles recipes collected everywhere in the net.
Chances are this spammer will only get his toe in the door on bloggers that are not very experienced and probably don’t have much traffic. So, what’s the point?
My shower of spam lasted exactly 24 hours – now things are back to normal, just a few lunatics popping every once in a while, but I’m turning into a very smart old fox, and they pose no problems :-)
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“Chances are this spammer will only get his toe in the door on bloggers that are not very experienced and probably don’t have much traffic. So, what’s the point?”
That is the MAJORITY of bloggers.
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LOL
Homo Modernus
does not reason.
He cuts and pastes images.(btw, thanks for the video link!)
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