{"id":533,"date":"2010-01-10T11:17:37","date_gmt":"2010-01-10T11:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2010\/01\/comment_spam_on_increase\/"},"modified":"2010-01-10T11:17:37","modified_gmt":"2010-01-10T11:17:37","slug":"comment_spam_on_increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2010\/01\/comment_spam_on_increase\/","title":{"rendered":"Comment Spam on Increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe it is related to the holiday season, buy the comment spam on Mac5 blogs has increased. In the past, automated spam was blocked with some special code I installed. I know there are businesses in poor countries that have rooms full of low-paid labor doing all kinds of things to manipulate Google searches. Manually posting comments with links is one such strategy<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/jeb\/files\/mt\/assets_c\/2010\/01\/Comment-Spam-Example-1-594.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/jeb\/files\/mt\/assets_c\/2010\/01\/Comment-Spam-Example-1-thumb-200x136-594.png\" width=\"200\" height=\"136\" alt=\"Comment-Spam-Example-1.png\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right;margin: 0 0 20px 20px\" \/><\/a>I have made some changes in the spam protection settings that will, I hope, intercept this new wave of spam. The example shown here was a spam that was caught in early December. It was caught for two reasons: 1) Too many links in the comment and 2) the IP address of the commenter was listed on a spam notification service. I have turned up the scoring to be more aggressive.<\/p>\n<p>Our friends and family should not get blocked when we are not including links. And even if we include links will typically get posted because we get positive credit with a known email address. Let&#8217;s hope the spammers don&#8217;t figure out our email addresses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe it is related to the holiday season, buy the comment spam on Mac5 blogs has increased. In the past, automated spam was blocked with some special code I installed. I know there are businesses in poor countries that have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2010\/01\/comment_spam_on_increase\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","tag-spam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}