althought ListYourList has pretty much been abandoned by yours truely (and therefore, everyone else), i still keep tabs on it using the RSS feeds. there’s one for lists and comments. occasionally someone posts a new list or comments on an old one, but the activity there pretty much crashed when i gave up on it.
but there’s been a new trend recently: spam comments! isn’t that exciting! so far it’s only been happening on THIS LIST, but as of this afternoon, it had 5 spam comments. this i almost can’t believe. i fully understand how and why wordpress gets spam comments: there are thousands of identical wordpress blogs and writing ONE spam program works for ALL of them. it’s worth the time and money of the spammers to invest in that. but ListYourList? come on now.
this means that the spammers have either come up with a spam-comment-spider that crawls the web and looks for general comment forms (name, email, comment), OR they have decided to target ListYourList specifically. i’ll tell you right now, it’s NOT the latter.
since the site is no longer mine and was passed off to shane a few months ago, we’ll see if HE can figure out a simple way to stop the spam.
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I used to get spam comments on my blog all the time….like 4 a day. It was madness…then all of a sudden, they just quit. Lucky me.
you were using askiment (the built in wordpress spam blocker) right?
I guess…I really have no idea….
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it was only at about 48 when I went to visit….where are these mystery 300 comments? Did the makers of 300 the movie put you up to this as some sort of promotion?