{"id":947,"date":"2007-10-26T07:30:53","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T12:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/10\/26\/an-unusual-form-of-comment-spam\/"},"modified":"2012-01-28T16:49:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T21:49:00","slug":"an-unusual-form-of-comment-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/10\/26\/an-unusual-form-of-comment-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"An unusual form of comment spam"},"content":{"rendered":"

My post yesterday<\/a> about older games seems to have attracted some attention – but in this case, of the negative kind. This morning I logged on to find a bunch of new comments – except they all looked somehow… odd. Turns out they were all from throw-away blogs (fake blogs set up to increase search engine rankings) that had done a “trackback” to my article. Some of them quoted just a bit of it (to make it relevant in Google’s eyes, I suppose) and one even went so far as to try and look like a legitimate link – except they used the wrong name! (They said “I’d have to agree with this post by Kevin B.”)<\/p>\n

Very strange – and this is the first time I’ve seen stuff like this show up in the comments. Has anyone else ever seen such comment spam? Is this a new phenominon, or is it just old stuff that I have been lucky enough to avoid thus far?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My article from the other day attracted a lot of “trackback” spam. Weird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[35,58,388,49],"class_list":["post-947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-internet","tag-spam","tag-technology","tag-wordpress","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-fh","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":613,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/09\/03\/comment-spam\/","url_meta":{"origin":947,"position":0},"title":"Comment Spam","author":"Keith Survell","date":"September 3, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"What is it about that attracts so much comments spam? Almost every day I have to moderate a new comment as \"spam\" for that post. 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Yet my inbox is still flooded with spam (I have to use 2 different spam-filtering services to keep it from being overwhelming - and even then stuff still gets through). An article on Slashdot asks the obvious question: what\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "politics"","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":520,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/06\/02\/spam-this\/","url_meta":{"origin":947,"position":3},"title":"Spam This","author":"Keith Survell","date":"June 2, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Spam is a serious problem. For example, one of the user's here at StarKeith.net shut down their email address here because they were getting so much spam. 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