Comments on: Fight Comment Spam at the Source http://footinmouthdisease.net/2009/02/26/fight-comment-spam-at-the-source/ Providing Local Search Engine Marketing, Content Writing Advice,Marketing Consulting in Pomona and Claremont Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:32:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: jeremypenguin http://footinmouthdisease.net/2009/02/26/fight-comment-spam-at-the-source/#comment-410 Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:10:07 +0000 http://footinmouthdisease.net/?p=426#comment-410 Howdy Rick-
Sorry i assumed you were on twitter -
A DM is a private tweet-
If you follow me on twitter- I’ll follow you back, then we can communicate better than through the blog roll and maybe we can see what’s causing you to get spammed out of most comment systems-

]]> By: Rick http://footinmouthdisease.net/2009/02/26/fight-comment-spam-at-the-source/#comment-409 Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:04:47 +0000 http://footinmouthdisease.net/?p=426#comment-409 DM????… maybe being stupid here but what is that? I really appreciate the help with this.

]]> By: jeremypenguin http://footinmouthdisease.net/2009/02/26/fight-comment-spam-at-the-source/#comment-408 Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:55:43 +0000 http://footinmouthdisease.net/?p=426#comment-408 Hey Rick-

Weirdest thing, when you used your information the first time, wordpress actually placed your message in the Spam Queue… Seemingly Automatically. I check my spam queue for real messages… That’s odd.. Maybe It’s because you’re using “Rick” as your name, and it matches a lot of bogus comment entries? DM Me, and we can try a couple of tests to see what goes to the spam quque and what doesn’t – http://www.twitter.com/footinmouth

]]> By: Rick http://footinmouthdisease.net/2009/02/26/fight-comment-spam-at-the-source/#comment-407 Sun, 08 Mar 2009 15:52:11 +0000 http://footinmouthdisease.net/?p=426#comment-407 All of my comments on other blogs ar being blocked and not going into moderation using the information I use to comment on blogs. I had to use different information to post this comment can anyone shed any light on this.

I am making completely normal hand typed comments. Is it my email address? Is it my domain? Or what? I need some sort of answer as to why this is doing this?

]]> By: Rick http://footinmouthdisease.net/2009/02/26/fight-comment-spam-at-the-source/#comment-406 Sun, 08 Mar 2009 15:49:18 +0000 http://footinmouthdisease.net/?p=426#comment-406 I cannot figure out why all my comments are not going live I think that my comments are being blocked for some reason on blogs can anyone tell me why? I make completely real comments no spamming tools used here.

Thanks for any input on this.

]]> By: AndyW http://footinmouthdisease.net/2009/02/26/fight-comment-spam-at-the-source/#comment-382 Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:15:23 +0000 http://footinmouthdisease.net/?p=426#comment-382 Yes!

One my sites is based on the Pligg CMS and which is a major target by spammers.

I got fed up with these spammers so I took a more proactive response.

I sent them an email but the email only contained one word. That word began with c and I simply can’t repeat it amongst polite company.

I was simply trying to goad them into a response – so far none have taken the bait.

Immature? Sure, but what the hell.

]]> By: jeremypenguin http://footinmouthdisease.net/2009/02/26/fight-comment-spam-at-the-source/#comment-377 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:10:05 +0000 http://footinmouthdisease.net/?p=426#comment-377 Good point, if they’re willing to spam, they’re more than likely willing to participate in other nasty tricks.

My thoughts are that at the very root, businesses are the source of spam because they’re the payroll. If spammers don’t get paid, then they don’t spam, so that’s my reasoning for going to the root business, but you’ve got a valid point that their marketer may have outsourced…

]]> By: Mike Wilton http://footinmouthdisease.net/2009/02/26/fight-comment-spam-at-the-source/#comment-376 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:13:36 +0000 http://footinmouthdisease.net/?p=426#comment-376 While I think it’s great you are fighting the good fight be careful when outing people like that. I don’t know that I would have gone to the company directly if I didn’t know for certain that their marketer was the one in fact responsible for the spam. Why you ask?

Well for one they’re spammers, you piss them off you’re probably gonna get bombed. Two; you don’t know what other types of malicious activities spammers may be involved in which could in the end cause even bigger issues for you or your blog.

Finally; ‘Fight the source’…You bypassed the source completely. If I were going to pursue something like that I would have started with the source and not the businesses they work for. I’d kindly asked them to take down the scraped content and then gone from there.

You don’t know if by chance the marketing company outsources their link building and maybe weren’t aware of the spammy practice. Assuming these companies take action you may have hurt this business and they may be completely unaware.

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