There are a number of sites that are harvesting the RSS feed of the comments on this site for SPLOGS. I know this because they send pingbacks when they post the content on their sites. This has been getting worse for me over the last few months – anyone else seeing it?
It’s annoying to have to delete several pingbacks on every legitimate comment, but the really nasty side effect is that they behave as comment SPAM multipliers. When I get a single SPAM comment, I end up having to also delete 3-4 pingbacks from SPLOGS that harvested the SPAM comment (along with the original SPAM comment). :sigh:
Yes, I am seeing this too, probably not on the same scale as you, but still!
It is very annoying though!
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
There’s an anti-leech plugin for WP that allows you to give specific referrers a different feed.
goatfe, anyone?