spam comments?
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My other question for the moment….I searched the forum and read few a few posts but haven’t quite figured out the answer to this one…
I had my blog up and running for about a month or so, only added two posts to start, but this week after adding two more, the next day I had comments pending for approval (that’s how I want to handle comments so have it set that way) and all of a sudden there were 4 pending approval, but when I checked them, they were just nothing but lines from my own blog posts? Is this just spam? I was going to just delete them as opposed to marking them as spam because I was concerned that because they seem to be coming from my own blog it would hurt me in some way, like I would be marking my own blog spam or something. Any insight into this and what I should do about it?
Also the same thing happened and I got another e-mail for a pingback approval or something and it’s the same type of thing. (of course I have to do research on what a trackback or pingback for approval means, but this one was just more spam stuff I think so hestitated for the same reasons.).
Thanks for reading.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Maybe that’s a trackback on your previous post or someone links on your content. It’s ok to approve them.
You can identify a comment if it is a spam, when the comment is not related to your post and have a strange links to other sites.
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But there is no author and there is really no comment, just a line of text from my post in the comment box and under author it just has the url link for that particular post – anyone have some additional insight?
Thanks.
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thewriteactions
No one here can even look at your blog to see what the problem might be without a link, starting with http://
And if you can post what one of the comments was, that might be even more useful for us to see what you are talking about. It’s likely a ping or a trackback, but without seeing it, that is only a guess.
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I get those. It’s nothing to worry about, it’s a trackback. When I get them they go into my spam folder. I was curious once and clicked on the link provided with the user name and discovered that the person was reading my blog and liked it, was making sure he was providing a trackback.
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Hmm. I don’t spam them. Often I’ll go and leave a comment on their blogs. Doesn’t make sense to delete links from someone who likes your blog, and especially not to mark them as spam.
The OP said:
“they were just nothing but lines from my own blog posts”
They could be self pings: links to some older posts in new ones. -
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Hmmmm good point. I guess I figured that was a good place for them because that’s where I found them.
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@thewriteactions – does the url end in .info? If so, it’s 99.9% likely to be a scraper/splogger. Why not post it here so we can take a look at it and the content?
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And we are all here speculating, because the original poster has not yet returned nor provied a link or sample.
Tea and cookies, anyone?
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Yes please. LOL
Okay I recant what I said earlier that it’s nothing to worry about! I started looking around and it seems that apparently I have content that has been copied without my knowledge onto others blogs. I’m pissy and don’t understand why anyone (especially a little teenage girl) would want to copy anything off my blog. It’s about ME! Jeesh. Sorry to highjake the thread but well since I already stuck my foot my mouth I wanted to come back to here instead of starting a new thread. Thanks you all! and yes cookies would be fabulous right now. -
Hi, OP here….I was only gone for a day :-) (and I probably won’t be back on until tomorrow sometime, but I am searching to read replies)
I thought my blog was visible since I was logged in and it’s my user name http://www.thewriteactions.wordpress.com
I will have to ponder all this as I read the replies and still don’t understand. There is no link to click on, so not sure about the whole trackback thing (I have to research what trackbacks really even are). I will also look around to understand what you mean by self-pings.
Will just have to see what happens over time. It’s still just a new concept for me, the whole blogging thing that is…
Oh and for 1tess, what kind of tea would you like? Peppermint, a nice cinnimon perhpas? :-)
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In order to get your username to be a link to your blog, you need to put it on your Profile, under “Website”.
If you look down at the very bottom of the comments on this post:
http://raincoaster.com/2007/04/01/mummified-fairy-remains-found/ (warning, LONG loading time)You’ll see that there are comments, made by people, and also trackbacks, which display at the end. You can see that some of them come from my own blog, and some come from other ones. This is what we’re talking about here.
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I also received a mysterious pingback on my latest post, similar to “thewriteactions.” When I looked up the link, I found that some website had hijacked my content and linked to my blog. They posted an autogenerated summary by substituting synonyms for my opening lines, then posted a link.
I deleted these so-called comments, but I consider this spam. Is there any way to prevent this from happening in the future?
BTW, the site was “eBlogtips.com”
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That’s called a Blog Scraper or splogger. Follow the instructions at http://stolen.wordpress.com for dealing with them.
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Thanks raincoaster, I did look at that link and saw exactly what a trackback is and how it’s a line from your own post.
Although on your example there is an actual author/another person’s website listed, but in my pending comments section there is nothing but my the title of the actual post listed as the author, so I think that’s what confuses me and why I did not wish to mark it as spam. Don’t want to make myself spam or something :-)
Hope that makes more sense now, thanks for helping me wade through this issus a little more.
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