Monday, December 21, 2009

Comments

From time to time I threaten to delete comments and sometimes people ask me to delete comments, but it's something I've hardly ever done for editorial reasons.

However recently I've been getting hit by a spammer who embeds links in Chinese characters, or sometimes in a row of dots. I have word verification enabled but they still get through. So if you noticed that comments are coming and going, that's why.

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3 comments:

penlan said...

I've been getting the same thing at my blog plus some others that say something nice. When I click on the name I get taken to either a Chinese site or a site that has a list of links to services, all different kinds. I delete all those comments.

Also, when I comment at other blogs who get "the spam" they end up in my inbox as well as I have checked off the box at the post to get comment updates.

Yappa said...

Hi penlan,

Thanks for the extra details. I'll be more alert after I post on other blogs.

I forgot to add that the sites that the links go to are sort of pornographic... or at least the two I accidentally clicked were. They were maybe call girl sites or something like that. It's a bit hard to tell with the language difference.

penlan said...

Well Yappa, if it was "call boy" sites it maybe wouldn't be so bad. ;)