What does spam a comment mean

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  blakejetboy · Member · Jul 25, 2007 at 4:27 am

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  what happens when you spam a comment? I dont understand. I just undertand the spam in my email. but not the comment one

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  nosysnoop · Member · Jul 25, 2007 at 4:45 am

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  When someone just starts posting lots of comments that have nothing to do with the post. It can be funny comments or rude comments or porn comments.

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  raincoaster · Member · Jul 25, 2007 at 5:06 am

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  Usually it is comments with links that try to sell you something, either porn or drugs.

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  timethief · Member · Jul 25, 2007 at 5:26 am

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  Exactly. That’s why I moderate my comments.
  Moderation cuts out spam and trolls.

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  blakejetboy · Member · Jul 25, 2007 at 6:28 am

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  ok thanks

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  crushliberalism · Member · Jul 28, 2007 at 2:43 am

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  When you report a comment as Spam, what happens? In other words, does the spammer’s ISP get notified or what?

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  katm · Member · Jul 28, 2007 at 3:02 am

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  AFAIK nothing goes back to the ISP.

  It will get entered in the Akismet database (or whatever storage method they use).

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  timethief · Member · Jul 28, 2007 at 4:13 am

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  @blakejetboy
  It’s very important that we do not get into spamming comments from people that are simply stating points of view we do not agree with. Akismet learns and we don’t want to confuse her. Stuff from drug and flesh peddlars, loan sharks, insurance scammers, and make a million on the net stuff is spam and should be marked as spam. Mark has previously explained to another Club Penguin member that the correct thing to do if we do not wish to post a comment we disagree with is to delete it.