Some comments are spam, some aren’t?

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  candyheart9 · Member · Jan 19, 2011 at 9:37 pm

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  I get some comments by mail, and some others by spam. The spam comments, have no icons or avatars. Are there real people? Just wondering, thank you.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Jan 19, 2011 at 9:52 pm

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  99% of the time, spam comments are left by automated bots.

  Some times they’re left by real people, but they’re still probably spam.

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  candyheart9 · Member · Jan 21, 2011 at 9:07 pm

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  Oh okay thanks! Because sometimes, I get these spam comments with weird names and the same comments twice!

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Jan 21, 2011 at 9:19 pm

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  You’re welcome!

  Yeah, duplicate comments are quite common when dealing with spam.

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  timethief · Member · Jan 21, 2011 at 9:25 pm

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  What I’m experiencing is human generated spam. The spam consists of pgrases from my own comments made in response to my commenters on blog posts, and phrases from my commenters comments which is simply copied and pasted and submitted as comments.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Jan 21, 2011 at 9:35 pm

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  That’s actually still a bot. :)

  They get smarter every year unfortunately.

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  timethief · Member · Jan 21, 2011 at 9:37 pm

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  Ineed they do. :)