Spammers have always had a bad rep with me. I’m not fond of them, and I’m guessing they may not be too fond of me. I usually don’t approve their comments.
I’ve recently stumbled upon a new spam technique that is perhaps the worst that I’ve ever seen. It’s bad enough that the spammer is trying to finagle a link by offering up a crappy comment that provides no value to my readers or to me. No, that’s not enough. This spammer has to provide a crappy comment in an attempt to finagle a cheap link by assuming someone else’s identity and “borrowing” (i.e. stealing) their avatar.
It happened right here.
This is a new low. Even for spammers. And my question to you is, do you think this will start happening more often and should webmasters now be more concerned about reputation management as a result of this new spam technique?
I am not sure how that would work. I know with WordPress at least you can set it up so that if a comment comes from an email address that's never commented before, the comment is held for approval. If it's spam admin can delete. Only admin could see the email address, not other site visitors. Thus if I wanted to post this comment as you and post a junk link I'd need to know your email address, which I can't see without admin rights to the blog.
Hi Caroline, Been a long time since I said Hi. Great Info & Link on Spammers. @Meredith, so right on WP, tho I have one Register that must be on a bot, as I delete it and within 3 or 4 hours it is back on. Any help appreciated.
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