Spammers are so cruel!! Someone posted 285 comments with all kinds of
By Sergeantrom
@sergeantrom (5721)
United States
June 5, 2010 8:35pm CST
ad links on my blog. Its my own fault for not moderating the comments and I had stopped blogging for awhile. Luckily I could cut and copy the post over without all those stupid comments. Be careful bloggers, spammers with plaster your blog with ads. They have some type of auto poster software. Has this ever happened to you before?
6 responses
@sergeantrom (5721)
• United States
8 Jul 10
Lucky for me, the headache was an easy fix! Never again though.
@lifeplayer (1007)
• Malaysia
29 Jun 10
Yes, it happen once and therefore i now are moderating all the comment before publish them. This is what i'm doing now. If worse come to worst, i might consider to close all the comment
@sergeantrom (5721)
• United States
3 Jul 10
Yes thats what Im doing now, moderating. What a shame but then again, it cuts down on all the spam, thanks.
@allen0187 (58582)
• Philippines
6 Jun 10
hope you get over this hump sergeant. spammers can really be a big pain in the @rse. you would think that they would have better things to do rather than post gibberish in someone else's blog. it doesn't help if these people are using an auto poster software as well. maybe it's time that ther's an anti-spam software. this hasn't happened to me and i doubt if i'll be as diplomatic as you when i deal with spammers. lol!
@sergeantrom (5721)
• United States
6 Jun 10
There was nothing I could do. There was no email and the commenter name was "anonymous". Thats why I changed my comments to be approved. I was going to report the person to blogger but it was anonymous.
@o0jopak0o (6394)
• Philippines
6 Jun 10
well i hate spammers, that is why one of my blogs before will not show the comments on the page but on a seperate page.
i have seen some sites that is being destroyed by spammers
@sergeantrom (5721)
• United States
6 Jun 10
Thats really sad that sites are being destroyed. Spammers are no better than scammers then. What a shame they have nothing better to do with their time.
@bloggeroo (2167)
• Philippines
6 Jun 10
Spammers are always on the lookout for websites that allow DoFollow links. So, blogs with comments enabled are usually good targets. Often blogs using WordPress can easily be found using just any search engine.
One defense is to disallow comments. Another is to change the theme or template so it will not contain recognizable search strings. The "Hello World" post in WordPress is one such search string that can easily be found.
@sergeantrom (5721)
• United States
6 Jun 10
I love the comments especially those that help others. Up til now, the comments have been specific so you can tell they actually read the post. I thought it would be more work to approve all comments but I see now its worth it. Thanks for the tip though.