spam, and “best political blogs”?

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  jackandrupertsmom · Member · Nov 8, 2008 at 3:15 am

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  Another question from this newbie. Today I had a comment (pingback) in spam, and it was a link to “bestpoliticalblogs.co.uk”. I’m brand new at this, and don’t know if this is good, or truly just spam for some reason.

  I’m betting someone here knows.

  Thanks.

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  sulz · Member · Nov 8, 2008 at 5:54 am

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  sounds like spam to me. if you’re not sure, you could check the url out for yourself and see.

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  tellyworth · Staff · Nov 8, 2008 at 10:11 am

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  It is indeed spam – a scraper site, though not as bad as many. It’s entirely automated and devoid of any real content.

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  sensuouscurmudgeon · Member · Nov 8, 2008 at 10:40 am

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  I used to wonder about some pingbacks. Finally I disabled the feature. To do this, go go Dashboard, Settings, Discussion, then un-check “Allow link notifications from other blogs.” I have no idea whether I’m missing out on something or not, but life is easier now. If anyone knows of some genuine advantage to allowing pingbacks, I’d like to know about it.

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  lizii · Member · Nov 8, 2008 at 10:42 am

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  Sometimes people can steal your posts. At least when you have pingbacks you’ll know about spam blogs stealing your posts, and you can report them.

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  mark · Member · Nov 8, 2008 at 10:52 am

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  You would be amazed how many people say those blogs are not spam.
  Yes there are.

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  jackandrupertsmom · Member · Nov 8, 2008 at 12:27 pm

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  Thank you all. I did check out the url, and couldn’t tell much from that, other than they post lots of blogs under lots of different topics. And, interestingly, it seems to be a WordPress page. Down at the very bottom it has that statement about the WordPress theme being used.

  I will just go ahead and delete it as spam. Thank you again.