{"id":736,"date":"2007-10-18T07:39:39","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T06:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=736"},"modified":"2007-10-18T07:39:39","modified_gmt":"2007-10-18T06:39:39","slug":"comment-spam-the-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=736","title":{"rendered":"Comment Spam &#8211; The Return?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m starting to see a handful of spam comments getting through.<\/p>\n<p>They are taking the form of &#8220;&#8230;wrote an interesting post today on&#8230;&#8221; &#8211; the &#8220;person&#8221; making the comment and their URL look reasonable enough, except the URL points to a copy of the original post and a shed load of useless adverts. For example:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[&#8230;] The Social Programmer wrote an interesting post today on DDD6 &#8211; The Recruitment Panel &#8211; Your help is needed!Here&#8217;s a quick excerpt Colin needs your help! Whilst we\u2019re still voting for the DDD6 sessions, &#8230; : Founder of Girl Geek Dinners and software Engineer at Cardinal Health. She has grown up around technology &#8230; Insurance Services in Glasgow. His team writes enterprise applications for internal customers using [&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The same trick has come from a couple of domains, I&#8217;m tempted to blacklist anything that has &#8220;wrote an interesting post today on&#8221;, however not right away.<\/p>\n<p>Has anybody else hit upon this problem?  Any solutions?  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m using WordPress 2.3 with Spam Karma.  I&#8217;ve not looked at Akismet, should I be running that too?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks in advance.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/WordPress\" rel=\"tag\">WordPress<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/comment+spam\" rel=\"tag\">comment spam<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Spam+Karma\" rel=\"tag\">Spam Karma<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Akismet\" rel=\"tag\">Akismet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m starting to see a handful of spam comments getting through. They are taking the form of &#8220;&#8230;wrote an interesting post today on&#8230;&#8221; &#8211; the &#8220;person&#8221; making the comment and their URL look reasonable enough, except the URL points to a copy of the original post and a shed load of useless adverts. For example: &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=736\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Comment Spam &#8211; The Return?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}