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1. zhivago79
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Hi all. I have a problem that I can't figure out. I've been diligent about managing my comments and deleting spam, but I just recently discovered a couple spam comments -- that only appear in my comments-rss feed, but not on the actual site. I'm using Google Reader, and when I view the comments feed, I see two comments whose content I cannot see on the blog when I follow the link back to my post, and whose comment id I cannot find in the database. What the heck is going on here?

   For reference, here's the blog: http://www.erichutchins.net/

   Here's a link to one of the spam comments: http://www.erichutchins.net/2006/04/01/congratulations-are-in-order/#comment-13299

   Note that I cannot find comment id 13299 anywhere... this is bizzare. Thanks in advance for any help!

2. whooami
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   are they comments that you recently deleted? rss feeds are typically cached by third partys like feedburner, etc..

3. zhivago79
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Hmm... I got rid of quite a few, I don't recall which particular ones I nuked.

   How often do services like feedburner refresh their cache? I'm a bit annoyed at the fact that I have some spam in my comments rss feed.

   Thanks for the info -- if the comments still show in the feed after the cache should have flushed, then I'll have to look into this further.

4. Otto
   Tech Ninja
   Posted 5 years ago #

   I don't actually see any spam comments in your actual feed, so I'm betting Google Reader just has your feed cached from when you did have some spam comments in there.

   I added your feed to my Google Reader and got no spam showing up there.

5. zhivago79
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Hmm... interesting. Good news, though, I suppose. However, the spam is still displayed in my Google Reader instance -- does anyone know of a way to flush my Google Reader cache? Thanks again for all your help!

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