{"id":5836,"date":"2005-09-29T08:37:27","date_gmt":"2005-09-29T07:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/?p=5836"},"modified":"2005-09-29T08:37:27","modified_gmt":"2005-09-29T07:37:27","slug":"new-variant-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2005\/09\/29\/new-variant-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"New variant spam"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new and worrying variant of comment spam has hit my site this morning – just a single spam comment so far, but it was sufficiently unusual for me to look at it closely before hitting the "delete" button.
\nThe spam itself contains the usual "I think your site is great" crap and a link, telling me to scroll half-way down for a recipe. Now, this is the sort of thing that I might do, but I usually check that the link is not to some pr0n or cas1n0 site before clicking, particularly as the link has come from a stranger (and consequently went straight to moderation for me to review).
\nIn fact, the link is to a legitimate weblog, specifically to this post<\/a>. As you can see, I’m not the only one to have experienced this.
\nIt seems that the comment spammer is trying to pollute comment spam blacklists by getting valid websites blacklisted. This would have the obvious consequence of rendering blacklists useless and reducing the value of anti-comment spam tools and plugins. This is a worrying development.
\nYou can read more about it at The Net Is Dead<\/a>. The advice is to carefully check comments left at your site and do not blacklist<\/b> legitimate sites and URIs.
\nPersonally, I find this all immensely tiresome. I had reduced the problem of comment spam to a minor nuisance, but now I’m back to getting 50 to 100 comment spams per day. This is not why I have a website – to wage a constant war on idiots is not why grayblog is here. A more timid soul might throw in the towel in the face of all this crap. It seems that waging this war is the price I must pay for subjecting you all to my words and pictures.
\nSome might argue that it’s a fair deal!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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