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WordPress and Comment Spam |
| Published: July 24, 2007, 3:56 pm |
| Tags: prevention, personal experiences, articles, akismet, automattic, comment spam, content theft, copyright infringement, copyright law, plagiarism, scraping, spam, spam blogs, wordpress |
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I would like to take an aside and delve into a related topic that has been on my mind for the past few months: Comment spam. Though it doesn’t have much to do with content theft, I have several reasons for wanting to cover this. First many of the RSS scrapers and spam bloggers also use this technique to supplement their work. Second, in some cases, the spammed comment contains scraped content, either from your site or others making it an infringement. Finally, it is an issue that is dear to the target readers of this site, bloggers and Webmasters. Though WordPress’ reputation against spam blogs has been almost impeccable, it has proved to be very vulnerable to comment spam. This has given rise to an entire cottage industry of anti-spam plugins and most of them, in my experience at least, have been ineffective. This lead me, about a month ago, to disable comments on all old posts. However, I have since backed away from that position because, among other reasons, it simply [ Full article ] |
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