How many people get it? How often do you get spammed? Every post? Every couple weeks? What's the extent of the problem?
I noticed most of my spam comes in on really old blog posts. Like more than a month. Almost all of it. I just got this:
Quote:
<p><strong>spanish phrases...</strong></p>
<p>Discover How You Can Master Spanish in less than 3 months!...</p>
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Sorry, not gonna give the tard a link. He (
why am I assuming this is the work of a he?) left two almost identical comments with links on a post I wrote
in May called
Why Isn't Colin Powell Running? That's right, new spam, yesterday morning, on a
4 month old post.
Why do they do this, you might be asking? I've run on Blogger and on WordPress, thanks to generous hosting from a talented and respectable person on this board. Couldn't figure out how to get a free WP account earlier, so I used the Google option instead. That's why they do this. You can use the Blogger engine with a custom domain name and a custom template, so until a person goes to leave comments, you wouldn't know what the site runs on. And people don't usually leave spam comments - it's robots.
Blogger doesn't alert you when someone leaves a comment. WordPress sends you an email, and holds it in moderation if it's from someone who hasn't commented before, or if there are too many links in the comment. When you go to the admin section it tells you how many comments are waiting for you to approve, and a list of the most recent. Anyone can spam any post and you'll know about it in WordPress. But in Blogger, if the post fell off the front page, you'd never know about a new comment, linking out to the spammyist of hoods, or just one that you should reply to.
Anyway, I've been wondering why the spammers always choose to reply to older posts of mine, and finally I think I figured it out. If not, I have a faulty light bulb over my head. You guys probably know all of this already, but I'm excited to finally have an answer.
