Empty comment spamming
Lately I’ve received a fair amount of comment spam in the blog. Fortunately, most of it is wiped away by Spaminator and none has passed through WordPress’ moderation queue for a really long time (knocking wood).
The most recent change in the spam comments is that there is no body, except two quotation marks (”"). Spaminator does not care about these, and they end to the moderation. I clean the queue twice a week or so, usually when writing new articles. So there are not a pain, but still somewhat annoying.
I checked Wordpress.org and found no mention of this issue except one entry in the forum. Maybe I should dive into the code and get this fixed — but on the other hand, I haven’t yet upgraded to WP 2.0. Spaminator could also tackle them with small modifications. Time will tell whether I get heated up with them and actually do something for it.
1. Dominic Hamilton — Tuesday, Jun 6 2006
Hello,How strange. The page I have on my site stats with 46 referrals brings me here. Any idea what’s going on? Ironically, I had a terrible time with my guestbook getting spammed, and eventually had to move to another one.Good luck with the travels and hope the Adsense works!Saludos,
Dominic
2. Janne — Tuesday, Jun 6 2006
Dominic,
I don’t have any idea. Somehow some of my articles are a lot of interest to spammers — maybe certain keywords in the text. The logic behind spammers completely escapes me.