WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Are spammers stealing legitimate comments? http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/are-spammers-stealing-legitimate-comments WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Are spammers stealing legitimate comments? en Tue, 21 May 2013 21:07:19 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 computinged on "Are spammers stealing legitimate comments?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/are-spammers-stealing-legitimate-comments#post-991361 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 15:25:34 +0000 computinged 991361@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks, all! I'm betting that that's what happened -- these are copy-paste from other sources.

]]> absurdoldbird on "Are spammers stealing legitimate comments?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/are-spammers-stealing-legitimate-comments#post-991337 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 15:13:33 +0000 absurdoldbird 991337@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I agree with Timethief and, for what it's worth, I've had bits of my own posts grabbed by spammers and put into spam comments. Do you know what I do? I delete them.

The only comments that get into my blog are ones made by real people, with real URLS and real email addresses. They are comments either by bloggers I already know or by bloggers (or non-bloggers) who are actually trying to connect with me as an individual who just happens to be a blogger too.

As TT says - don't be sucked in by it.

]]> timethief on "Are spammers stealing legitimate comments?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/are-spammers-stealing-legitimate-comments#post-991334 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 15:11:06 +0000 timethief 991334@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Also note that we receive spam that contains our own words from posts and from comments. Don't be sucked in by it either.

Read 5 things every blogger should know about spam.

]]> timethief on "Are spammers stealing legitimate comments?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/are-spammers-stealing-legitimate-comments#post-991324 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:58:31 +0000 timethief 991324@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ People are hired to write those "great" comments. Their aim is to get the spam links on your blog. Don't be sucked in by it.

]]> computinged on "Are spammers stealing legitimate comments?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/are-spammers-stealing-legitimate-comments#post-991280 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:09:52 +0000 computinged 991280@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/

Not really sure what you mean there. 99.9% of comments are Spam. You can usually tell by the usernames and email addresses.

Generic 'atta-boy' type comments are almost always Spam. Unless the comment specifically references something in your post, it should be deleted.

Completely agreed -- I see a lot of those. The two comments I describe were in my spam cache, and did have these completely spam-like usernames and email addresses (e.g., offshore bank accounts). But the comments are great.

Here's what I think happened (somehow):

  1. Some legitimate user made a thoughtful comment and posted it.
  2. But somehow, a spammer was able to swap out the identifying information on the comment, so that it pointed to their spam site.
  3. Akismet caught the comment as spam and put it in my cache, but it's really a good comment whose identify is stole.
]]> auxclass on "Are spammers stealing legitimate comments?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/are-spammers-stealing-legitimate-comments#post-991272 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 13:57:22 +0000 auxclass 991272@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @notawoodpecker

Sorry on the wordsmith thing - or if they are already in the spam cache like they are for you then clearing the spam cache does delete them - it's that I have seen some people that were having spam problems and they were just deleting them and Akismet was not learning

]]> notawoodpecker on "Are spammers stealing legitimate comments?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/are-spammers-stealing-legitimate-comments#post-991256 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 13:33:13 +0000 notawoodpecker 991256@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Well, in my case, they're already marked as Spam and awaiting action.

Maybe OP isn't sending them to Moderation?

]]> auxclass on "Are spammers stealing legitimate comments?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/are-spammers-stealing-legitimate-comments#post-991253 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 13:30:36 +0000 auxclass 991253@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/

Unless the comment specifically references something in your post, it should be deleted.

Not deleted but marked as Spam - that way Akismet will learn who is a spammer and how they are getting by the filters

]]> notawoodpecker on "Are spammers stealing legitimate comments?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/are-spammers-stealing-legitimate-comments#post-991250 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 13:24:51 +0000 notawoodpecker 991250@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I think that spammers are "hijacking" legitimate comments

Not really sure what you mean there. 99.9% of comments are Spam. You can usually tell by the usernames and email addresses.

Generic 'atta-boy' type comments are almost always Spam. Unless the comment specifically references something in your post, it should be deleted.

]]> computinged on "Are spammers stealing legitimate comments?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/are-spammers-stealing-legitimate-comments#post-991245 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 13:17:48 +0000 computinged 991245@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I think that spammers are "hijacking" legitimate comments in my blog. I've written a post about it: http://computinged.wordpress.com/2012/08/29/new-kind-of-spam-snagging-legitimate-comments/ Is there anything I can do (e.g., in my settings) to make this less likely?
Blog url: http://computinged.wordpress.com/

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