A question today, more of a rant — not against fellow bloggers — but spammers.
Has anyone else been bothered by an onset of spammers in recent days/weeks ?
A fellow blogger recently commented on this issue posting that she had been bombarded with over 80 spam comments in a single week.
Nearly all spammers spew their garbage overnight, many contain links to online betting. Daily morning checks show postings within the past 4-6 hours of a 7 am check.
Unfortunately, actual blogger comments are sometimes marked as spam. These need to be checked as OK to publish. It's become a morning routine to check comments, delete spam, OK legitimate comments to publish.
Seriously, do these spammers think anyone in his/her right mind would click on any of the included links?
- WHY do spammers bother; paid commissions on the number of spammed sites?
- WHY if blogger can ID a comment as spam is it still published?
- WHY when marked as spam and deleted, a spam comment returns on another post?
What I've been doing
As mentioned above, many recent spammers hawking online betting come from a specific source(s). These sites have been reported to blogger for inappropriate comments. When a spammer is reported, blogger will send this reply:
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Hi,
Thanks for flagging potential policy or legal violations on Google.
We’ve received your report under the following abuse category: spam or unwanted content.
The Google Team
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Whether or not this will limit or prohibit future spam is yet to be determined.
Here's are several sites recently spewing spam comments. If you find any in your post comments, the best advice would be to delete immediately.
- Laser247
- ReddyAnna Book
- Online CricketID
- Arman
- Bet bbhi
- Online Cricket ID
In addition to spam containing links to online betting, spammers will use flattery and offer positive comments on how well the post was presented, etc. It's all smoke and mirrors (something that seems good but is not real or effective). It's best to delete these too.
Many bloggers moderate comments in an attempt to control spam, possibly for other reasons. If you do this, does it work?
Your turn — If any blogger has other solutions that work, please leave a comment.
12 comments:
...I had Laser247 hit me lately. It takes seconds to delete them!
I have WordPress, which employs Akismet to filter out spam. So no problem for me, as spam doesn't surface on my blog.
I’m afraid that I have resigned myself to it. Comments go to my email for approval before being published so I delete them.
I have not been hit, but I’m sure now that I say that, I’ll be onboarded!
I have had maybe 5 per day, the kind that leaves personal remarks with a link, I delete them. today I got up to the gambling spam, there were 21 of them published and 25 of comments from friends were in spam but had published. I just to to comments and click manage, tap on the 21 and click spam and delete. it is aggravating for sure, but to me having to read every comment and publish is more aggravating. about 3 months ago I got up one morning to over 100 on all 3 of my blogs. now that was aggravating.
Delete, delete, delete is my go to…spam is a nuisance!
I use comment moderation and now I've banned anonymous comments too. So at least my readers are spared them.
And this is why I moderate. I haven't had many -- maybe one or two a day. But more will come. I just don't get it.
I have a few spammers, today there was one about gambling. But what irks me is the spam folder seems to have legitimate comments that were made long ago (maybe a week) by regular people, which have no message that's at all questionable. I of course approve them, but those comments are really being held for what reason?
I seldom get spam comments on my blog (I think BT has a pretty good firewall), but we get plenty of scammers on our phones, claiming to be from bank security or Amazon or some other unconvincing source. It's scary how much money people can lose if they don't realise it's a scam - often thousands of pounds.
It is easy to delete them when you have chosen the moderation of comments. But I notice Blogger only allows me to also mark very few as spam and then after that I have to just delete. I got a bunch of them for a couple of days but haven't since. I didn't know Blogger will remove spam and don't know where to look to see they haven't removed comments that aren't spam. I'll have to search and see if I can find them.
I don't think I have spam now or get much at all, but I am going to check the folder now bc sometimes the comments go in there -- even mine on my own blog. :)
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