Comments on: Comment Spammers Sink to a New Low

By: Gopal Aggarwal

Gopal Aggarwal — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 04:58:36 +0000

it wasted your time…but if sales is the site’s purpose, it lost

would you trust even a site like Wikipedia, if you were taken to it like that?

I hope I have made the idea clear :)

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v7ndotcom-elursrebmem-org — Thu, 11 May 2006 12:44:02 +0000

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By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 03:47:41 +0000

Junior – nothing wrong with donating to the red cross – nothing at all. However the link doesn’t have anything to do with the redcross – it is a false link that is just about making money for the owner of the link.

By: Junior

Junior — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 18:32:54 +0000

Whats wrong with trying to have people donate money to the red cross? This doesn’t seem low at all………. I am sure you people didn’t donate. My family did. In fact I am trying to get my friends together to fly back and help them. I guess this shows the heart of most americans. THEY DON’T HAVE ONE!

By: Audri

Audri — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:47:49 +0000

Although this may be new for comment spam, it certainly isn’t new for regular spam. We saw a similar spam email for Viagra go out within a couple of HOURS after Katrina hit land.

For anyone who is interested, ScamBusters tracks disaster scams. Katrina was the worst so far. You can see the 11 biggest types of disaster scams, as well as how to protect yourself and suggestions for how you can help disaster victims here:

http://www.scambusters.org/hurricanekatrinascams.html

By: Paulo

Paulo — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:54:11 +0000

"The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death." I read that bible verse on the train this morning, and referrer/comment spammers like this one immediately popped into my head.

By: Jim Turner

Jim Turner — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:24:56 +0000

Made you look!

By: todd

todd — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 13:34:24 +0000

lordy, who cares? get a life. delete it and move on, or setup comment spam filters……or pay someone to do it for you darren, if you cant handle it….

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 12:00:37 +0000

Meanwhile, on the other side of the spectrum, you can find users like this. He isnt even a U.S citizen, and yet has given so selflessly of himself, it is a incredible. His photos, and the profound way in which he dealt with a battered flag, should be a lesson to all americans. Check it out here: http://www.fbtz.com/forum/showthread.php?t=36209

By: Andy Merrett

Andy Merrett — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 09:31:00 +0000

Sickening, but not surprising. People with low morals in general are quite happy to profit from human misery. It’s been happening since the world began, the Internet just mass-produces it. Makes the “I like your site” kind of spam look positively innocent.

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 07:40:59 +0000

Why repeat the link here and give them more rank?

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 06:23:00 +0000

Just when you think they can’t go any lower, they prove you wrong and do. Barstards!

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 04:40:42 +0000

“but the intent is to optimize their page for Search Engines via the link not direct puchases.”
I think you’ll find that they are less interested in the SE juice than the click through. Most of the destinations are affiliate sites and not really playing the Search Engine traffic game. There hope is just that a large enough percentage of the click throughs will buy. Even a link with a nofollow from Problogger could be quite beneficial to them.

By: Darnell

Darnell — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 04:17:46 +0000

I sympathize with you on this one Darren. On my site, I was fed up with receiving spam, and when the count was reaching 89 comments in 24 hours (which was a spike) I decided to implement Blogger’s Word Verification (slightly tweaked it though…you’ll have to visit it to understand).

I also got rid of trackbacks because of the same reason and replaced them with back links instead. I think my blog is now 99% spam proof. Unless they use human spammers of coarse (yes, I’ve been spammed by humans too).

By: Martin (HomeOfficeVoice)

Martin (HomeOfficeVoice) — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 04:15:40 +0000

You’re right Darren. I guess that’s why all the big guys got together and implemented the “no follow” tag. It’s sad that because of a few bad apples genuine commenters can’t get any real s/e benefit.

By: hagrin

hagrin — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 04:09:18 +0000

Well, I think that’s the drawback to the way that the comment system on this blog currently works. Although the obvious upside is ease of use and a potential for better communication between your readers and yourself, the downside to not having any type of authentication are exactly those types of posts.

In addition, due to the popularity of your site now, I would expect to see more of this until some protective measure is taken. “Splogging” is catching on quick and it is lucrative once scripts are developed to mass post links such as Viagra/Katrina donations.

You might have to look into turning on authentication of some sort if the problem gets out of hand. Many bloggers have had to do just that or even in extreme cases turn off commenting all together (i.e see Mini-MSFT).

By: George

George — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 04:01:02 +0000

I get tons of junk comments at my guestbook. Those spammers think I don’t monitor it and hoping to ride the PR.

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 03:38:29 +0000

I’ve reported them to Google Adsense which they run ads for on their page and suggested they have their account banned and that they be removed from Google’s index.

I recommend others do the same

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 03:36:56 +0000

True Martin – but the intent is to optimize their page for Search Engines via the link not direct puchases.

By: Martin (HomeOfficeVoice)

Martin (HomeOfficeVoice) — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 03:15:02 +0000

Typical! Any chance to make monery from adversity … these people are pretty much as shameless as they get.

I don’t think many people would bother clicking on the link – or more importantly buying anything.