Comments on: Comment Spam Multiplier

By: Mr. Gunn

Mr. Gunn — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 23:50:41 +0000

There’s an anti-leech plugin for WP that allows you to give specific referrers a different feed.

goatfe, anyone?

By: Brad Jasper

Brad Jasper — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 23:03:43 +0000

This has been frustrating for me as it clogs up legitimate trackbacks.

I’m thinking Akismet needs to focus on trackbacks more.

One solution I’ve found, if the SPLOG is hosted at Blogger you can report it here: http://help.blogger.[...]ubmit=Submit

This has actually worked for me a couple times.

By: chada

chada — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 22:30:48 +0000

I hate those pingbacks while I was using Boblog, draw me crazy!

But now, my wp blog is maybe to new to let me experience that ^^ it is pretty good.

By: Stephen Hopson

Stephen Hopson — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:47:43 +0000

Alex:

I’ve been getting pingbacks from a site called something like academics (dot) boink (dot) com (Don’t want to give them any link juice!).

I know it’s a splogger and I haven’t figured out how to block them but they keep harvesting off my feed. The moment I publish something they scrape it off and publish it on this site.

Very annoying!

By: Bud

Bud — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 16:15:29 +0000

I was wondering what those comments were. I just started my blog and I have only had one of those comments. Don’t really know what text triggered it. But Askimet did catch it and make it as SPAM.

Seemed like a worthless comment that only posted back to my original message.

Thanks for the heads up.

By: Truden

Truden — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:59:42 +0000

Yes, I’m experiencing the same pingback spam in the last 2-3 months.
It goes on even after I disabled pingbacks on my web blogs.
Right now I have one pingback undeleted.

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:49:09 +0000

Fairly new to this blogging lark, but seem to be getting a lot of “Craig has posted an interesting post about X today, here is an excerpt and you can read more about it here…” type pingbacks which are a pain.

Not so bad if you only get one in a post, but a recent post mentioned the phrase “car insurance” so I had about a dozen of the things from various websites!

By: Simon Scullion

Simon Scullion — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 08:38:55 +0000

Yes, I am seeing this too, probably not on the same scale as you, but still!

It is very annoying though!