Weirdly, these two examples link to sites that don't seem to exist, so I'm not quite sure what their purpose is — normally,
spam comments try to send traffic to fake blogs («splogs») that make money through Google Ads or other contextual advertising.
Not exact matches
I
tried to post two
comments earlier but I guess putting in a link was seen as
spam.
I get dozens of
comments daily
trying to sell me authentic Air Jordans and search engine optimization services, so the filter sticks them in the
spam box, which is usually very convenient.
Wow, clearly baby center isn't filtering out all of the
spam comments from folks
trying to make a quick buck!
I
try to catch them with my
spam filter and
comment monitoring, but sometimes the really clever ones get through.
PS: Do you ever get those
spam comments and / or emails that
try to sound like actual
comments or emails?
I envision a system where once a book has X reviews or X sales or X
comments it gets manually vetted by someone to make sure its not
spam or
trying to game the system and put it in the main book category.
In over 5 years I've never let a single
spam comment get posted, and yet they still continue to
try, and most of it's just incomprehensible nonsense.
If your blog gets big, you will have to set up a Captcha to strain out machines that
try to register with you and send
spam comments.
I have never
tried to moderate my
comments (except for
spam, which is why you might have a
comment with embedded links held for moderation — I am looking to filter people selling male enhancement products, not people who disagree with me.)
So Google, along with Yahoo! and Bing decided to come up with a solution to
try and cut down on this «
comment spam» and devised an attribute that a webmaster could add to links that he or she could not vouch for, or did not trust.
And I
tried looking through the
comments for an answer, but that post has an insane number of
spam comments.