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  • Hello,

    I have had several comments today which are in a similar tone as my blog. I’m mostly sewing/vintage fashion related. I got a few comments today which really stumped me, as they were the same type of overall content as my blog but were not the same content as the posts they commented on. Since they were long and detailed I was unsure if they were spam. I took the advice someone posted in another thread about googling the first few sentences and did find the comments posted originally on other sewing blogs.

    I’m wondering if anyone else has experienced this?

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    Yes and no. They’re not getting smarter, that trick is fairly old. It’s just that they use new methods, and Akismet has yet to learn it. Mark it as spam, it’ll help.

    Thread Starter lmaringola

    (@lmaringola)

    Thank you very much for your reply. This was the first time I ran into this where it wasn’t clearly spam. I spoke to another friend with a wordpress.org site and she says the same thing happens to her. I suppose I’ll google any suspicious comments.

    Thanks again!

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