Sjeltur

I have been posting before about spam via the commenting on blogs….
In stead of sending you an email – in which they ask you to go to their homepage….. they are posting a comment on webblogs, hoping that someone is going to click a link they are mentioning.

I have no idea about HOW they do it…. some have an “automated” system…. And within 5 minutes I will get 20 spamcomments…..

We, the bloggers,  have some tricks to make “sure” those spamcomments are not appearing in the posts. Some use a little script – which is asking the person who makes a comment for a word to re-type. This makes sure that the “automated spammers”  do not have a change….
Some use little programs which are filtering the spamcomments out…. And the blogger first need to give an “okay” to such a comment.

I am using one of those filterprograms – Akismet – and it works really nice.
If I give an okay to one; it remembers the person who did the comment; so the next comment will  always get approval.
Every day I will have a couple of messages in the “spamfolder”….

This morning I had a “surprising one”….. at first I thought that Akismet made a mistake (which sometimes happens…..). A comment which was telling me that I am using a good title for a certain post……
But then I saw a second comment….. Uh……. asking me if I am making some titles to get readers…and this title is not referring to the post…. This title and post where both referring to a new post I did on my other weblog SightProject…….. = how can that be a “wrong”  title…??

And both comments from different IP addresses – BUT using the SAME name and using the same homepage…..

Yep – Akismet was right…. but…. I have to say….. those “spammers are getting very good at what they do…..”