Smart Spam: How to Identify and What To Do With Them!
July 16th, 2009 -- Posted in How-to, Web Stuff | No Comments »
This is so common nowadays in blogs. Usually, we can tell a comment is spam when you see so many irrelevant links posted, or maybe just a jumble of words that don’t make any sense, or simply something that does not, not even the slightest, responding about your post. You get the idea, don’t you? An example of a pretty obvious spam comment is one you see on YouTube , the so-called “Chain Comments”, which is quite similar to Chain Letters, asking you to repost a comment because something bad will happen. Lame, right?
But now, they’ve been pretty clever to make bots that comment now like the usual spam comments we know. They know consist of complete sentences. Yes, I have been a victim of this. Below is a sample of a comment I get pretty often here on my blogsite:
“Эта отличная идея придется как раз кстати”
Yes, sadly, I have been a victim of these comments. I’ve been getting different varieties of these comments, but yes, these have been bothering me for the past week, or month I guess. I’ve been getting comments all the time from what I thought were really Russians. I even have them translated in translation sites. Only to realize after a while that they probably are spams. Which led me to research about them. And, I was right. The comments I have been accepting are merely spams!
So, how to avoid or identify spams? Easy. Simply copy the comment you suspect is spam, go to Google, paste the comment in the search box, and click Search. If you see the exact phrase or comment alot in the results, then, it definitely is spam.
Another way to avoid it is have Captcha for your comments. This will determine if the comment poster is a human or just a bot. (I just received pesky little comment again – argh!)
WordPress actually has Akismet to determine somehow which comments are spam or not. If there is a comment Akismet does not recognize as spam, but you think it is, then do the Google Search. 
I got this idea from the following link:
How to Identify a Smart Spam
Check it out, it would be of great help. =D
Hope this kinda helped you all. CheerS!
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Enjoy!
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If you see your dad cleaning the car, go help him out. Not only do you help him clean the car, you could also talk and catch up with a lot of things. Talk about the latest movie, or maybe a video game if your dad is a gamer, too. It will definitely be a cool bonding time.
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