WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Splog shower http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/splog-shower WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Splog shower en Fri, 24 May 2013 18:50:34 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 forestneeds on "Splog shower" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/splog-shower/page/2#post-158570 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:07:16 +0000 forestneeds 158570@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ There is presently only one member of the Casino splog swarm up and running ( for 35 minutes only).
Still a hand job to remove these splogs; no bots yet.

]]> forestneeds on "Splog shower" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/splog-shower/page/2#post-155060 Sun, 13 Jan 2008 01:31:43 +0000 forestneeds 155060@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @mark, you have them at your fingertips easier than I do: try the tags "online casino games", "casino gambling" etc. start with the one that I dobbed in jan 12 at 1:40pm using the blue line at the top of my dashboard, blog info, report as spam. It can get pretty tedious dobbing in splogs at one every 30 seconds.

]]> mark on "Splog shower" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/splog-shower/page/2#post-154841 Sat, 12 Jan 2008 14:38:17 +0000 mark 154841@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ forestneeds - please send in links to these. I cannot know what you are seeing without you telling me where to look.

]]> forestneeds on "Splog shower" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/splog-shower/page/2#post-154839 Sat, 12 Jan 2008 13:41:40 +0000 forestneeds 154839@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ The 23 September splog shower ended on or about 2 November.May be it's just coincidence, but it seemed as if nothing was being done until it was commented about on Lorelle's influentual blog; and then smack, immediate action. Nothing like it before or since?
I'm getting lazy: online casino gambling splog swarm has been active for 1 month.

]]> forestneeds on "Splog shower" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/splog-shower/page/2#post-143932 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:21:23 +0000 forestneeds 143932@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Phew! for a moment there I thought the spoil sports had dobbed in the specimen splog shower I was watching. From what timethief says, it looks like we're in for another extended shower.

@mark, If I give you the urls, will you create a wp account class for splog watchers and keep the otherwise "nuked" splog showers there where we can peruse their design and development?

]]> timethief on "Splog shower" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/splog-shower/page/2#post-143729 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:52:58 +0000 timethief 143729@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ BTW the 7 blogspot blogs that had duplicate advertising entries embedded in recipes too are all 404 ing today. YAY!

]]> timethief on "Splog shower" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/splog-shower/page/2#post-143726 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:42:14 +0000 timethief 143726@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I just reported a second blog that has advertising embedded in recipes as well.

]]> timethief on "Splog shower" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/splog-shower/page/2#post-143723 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:35:31 +0000 timethief 143723@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I found one and reported it immediately using the "report as spam" link.

]]> mark on "Splog shower" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/splog-shower/page/2#post-143722 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:28:00 +0000 mark 143722@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Do you have a blog url?

]]> forestneeds on "Splog shower" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/splog-shower/page/2#post-143716 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:19:40 +0000 forestneeds 143716@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @lettershometoyou: try the tags Bread Recipes, or Cheesecake Recipes, from easyrecipes before wordpress.com nuke it. That one is an example of a beggining splog shower within a single blog. I mention this purely for the historic record. When wp come out with a new splog blocking app we might have some background to the circumstances; otherwise, we lose the history of wp.

]]> lettershometoyou on "Splog shower" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/splog-shower/page/2#post-134648 Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:43:37 +0000 lettershometoyou 134648@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ It was awful, wasn't it? Has anything been learned from all that? Will tag surfing be a chore instead of fun the next time around?

]]> forestneeds on "Splog shower" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/splog-shower/page/2#post-134538 Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:28:00 +0000 forestneeds 134538@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ My last sighting of the 23 Sept splog shower was on 2 Nov. Has anyone had a more recent sighting?

]]> forestneeds on "Splog shower" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/splog-shower#post-131727 Fri, 02 Nov 2007 19:30:22 +0000 forestneeds 131727@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I dont subscribe to tags. I just look at the "latest posts" section under "what's hot" on the right hand side of my dashboard. Still the 23 sept shower slogs do have tags if you want to keep track of them via tags; Though the tags are various including: "games for girls", "ethics", "ugly jokes", and "stupid".

]]> sulz on "Splog shower" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/splog-shower#post-131545 Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:49:23 +0000 sulz 131545@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ forestneeds: i have not seen splogs in tag surfer for the past week or so. what tags are you subscribing to?

]]> forestneeds on "Splog shower" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/splog-shower#post-131536 Fri, 02 Nov 2007 08:41:21 +0000 forestneeds 131536@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ The shower of splog swarms that I first noticed hitting wordpress.com on 23 sept continues more than one month on. Although superficially looking to be in different styles, it is the work of one splogger or team. For at least the last week the presentation has been the defalt wp blue header. There is a commonality of double personal names, eg gordonjulia, or one name with letters added to either end, eg timothywfg. I have noticed 3 or 4 content styles. Post titles such as "Back in the habit - booming religious communities, and their counterpart" with long lists of links, many of them empty wp blogs ending in links to drug or porn sites. Another style will be alledgedly about "What To Look For In A Honda Civic Cat Back Exhaust" but will have phrases within the body of the post as links to an online drug store, then ending with a list of phrases or sentences such as: "Size Of A Midgets Penis". A third style is Pretty much a long list of one link with different "pages(?)". It's been a weeek since I looked much, I think there may be another style. Nothing much has changed with how that particular splogger works on this shower.

]]> forestneeds on "Splog shower" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/splog-shower#post-127760 Sun, 21 Oct 2007 08:46:40 +0000 forestneeds 127760@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Read about one woman's love/hate relationship with Hip Hop. Does she need drugs for her thyroid? Does Caesar need however many thousands of empty newly opened wordpress.com blogs? Well, no. It's still the 23 sept swarm. Is it an inside job? Is it a wordpress.com training exercise?

]]> thistimethisspace on "Splog shower" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/splog-shower#post-125722 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 21:55:57 +0000 thistimethisspace 125722@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Yes indeed and they are easily found and reported by using tag surfer.

]]> forestneeds on "Splog shower" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/splog-shower#post-125595 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 10:34:44 +0000 forestneeds 125595@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ It's the weekend again, and the likes of dara pamela and sargent mitchell are at it again pushing drugs and porn on wordpress. Same swarm as that of 23 sept.

]]> timethief on "Splog shower" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/splog-shower#post-123292 Sat, 06 Oct 2007 20:44:53 +0000 timethief 123292@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I work hours on the forum almost every day answering questions and multi-tasking at work (I work at home). When I have free time I'm hunting these splogs down and reporting them and I know that other forum volunteers are doing the same too.

]]> forestneeds on "Splog shower" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/splog-shower#post-123287 Sat, 06 Oct 2007 20:32:19 +0000 forestneeds 123287@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ The swarm that I first reported september 23 is still active right now, presently at more than one new splog per minute (eg: boris and ezekiel). Sometimes it's a quarter of the latest posts. Past swarms have at times taken up more than half the latest posts. I'm not counting Mark does though. Historically it's been at least that 140 splogs in 12 hour. Anyone who has spare time to browse the off topic forum definitely has plenty of time to search out and report splog swarm members.

Latest move on the present swarm is dallas plus champ. Still on "design by beccary" (hough I have come across an odd one out).

]]> timethief on "Splog shower" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/splog-shower#post-123233 Sat, 06 Oct 2007 16:46:11 +0000 timethief 123233@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I'm surprised to hear you didn't enjoy finding the examples like 139 splogs created in 12 days and reporting them ;)

]]> lettershometoyou on "Splog shower" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/splog-shower#post-123231 Sat, 06 Oct 2007 16:22:01 +0000 lettershometoyou 123231@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I was reporting about 10 - 15 splogs a day for about a week toward the end of September, but it's dropped off a lot since. It made tag surfing a real drag, that's for sure.

]]> forestneeds on "Splog shower" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/splog-shower#post-123207 Sat, 06 Oct 2007 12:35:27 +0000 forestneeds 123207@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks Mark, I have not noticed any splog activity has for at least over half an hour or more.

@judyb12, simonejohn was one of them.

@raincoaster, it isn't to do with registration, wordpress.com catches comment spam trying to get to my blog; I have a high expectation of staff competency and skill to catch spam whereever it occurs. That is a vote of confidence.

]]> mark on "Splog shower" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/splog-shower#post-123205 Sat, 06 Oct 2007 12:00:54 +0000 mark 123205@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ It's mainly my job to nail these blogs. They can and do build while I'm asleep but during the day I am very frequently checking. I have many methods of finding them but their ability to infect the dashboards is unfortunately due in the main to me not being in front of this monitor.

Reports are always very welcome - there is the risk that while attention is being spent on these particular blogs that others will creep in. And we don't want those either. So please do report.
Every things gets read and acted upon if needed.

]]> raincoaster on "Splog shower" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/splog-shower#post-123198 Sat, 06 Oct 2007 11:30:41 +0000 raincoaster 123198@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Forestneeds, Akismet isn't hooked up to the whole blog registration thing. It has nothing to do with that. As far as I know, they rely solely on reports from users.

]]> judyb12 on "Splog shower" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/splog-shower#post-123196 Sat, 06 Oct 2007 11:20:27 +0000 judyb12 123196@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ here, i made you a screenshot so you don't think i'm blind :-)
http://judyb12.wordpress.com/files/2007/10/latestposts.png

]]> judyb12 on "Splog shower" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/splog-shower#post-123195 Sat, 06 Oct 2007 11:14:18 +0000 judyb12 123195@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @forestneeds:
yeah, i looked there, and i just looked again. No splogs.

]]> raincoaster on "Splog shower" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/splog-shower#post-123191 Sat, 06 Oct 2007 11:08:34 +0000 raincoaster 123191@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I just reported one of those. "Glory Hole" as a title makes it rather easy to pick out. This is the first one I've seen in at least a couple of weeks, though.

]]> forestneeds on "Splog shower" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/splog-shower#post-123189 Sat, 06 Oct 2007 10:53:32 +0000 forestneeds 123189@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @judyb12 It's in the "latest posts" section. It is not a matter of timing, it is continuous. There's either one swarm with 2 sub sets, or two swarms active at the moment. Splog members that have been reported as being spam continue posting. One swarm is presently using seemingly general interest topics to link to 2 (or more) on-line drugstore sites; the other having posts consisting pretty much solely of dozens of porn/drug links. The member splogs of both swarms have no avatar and the blog title is of either one or two personal names with additional characters. Given these combinations, I would've though that the spam catchers behind wordpress.com would find it easy to nail these. At least that was my high expectation.

]]> raincoaster on "Splog shower" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/splog-shower#post-123181 Sat, 06 Oct 2007 10:15:42 +0000 raincoaster 123181@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I havent' seen any recently either, and God knows I'm always online.

But spam and splogs and such do go up on weekends, that's quite true.

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