Duplicate Comment Spam

  • holtzab

    (@holtzab)


    15 years, 11 months ago

    In the past week I’ve started receiving a high number of spam comments. They are always word-for-word duplicates of other comments that have already been posted. The only difference is that they come from names I don’t recognize and the spammer always puts a link to a URL that goes to a blank blog (always different name and URL).

    Where are they coming from, and which plugin seems like it would be the most useful?

Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total)
  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    15 years, 11 months ago

    Yeah that’s the new spam method. To avoid things like bad-word moderation queues, they seem to scrape for comments that are already approved. If they’re already being flagged as spam by akismit or whatever you’re using, then I’d let it go.

    If not, what are you using right now?

Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total)

The topic ‘Duplicate Comment Spam’ is closed to new replies.