Were you also a victim of the spam bot ? Comments of different IPs, but same mail / URI ? Search this board with “Spam”… ¬__¬
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Anonymous
Yes I was, but I was wondering how it was possible? If no link exists for the spam bot to scan, how can it invoke a the comment process? I’m just wondering how it is technically possible.
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They don’t look for posts or rather published posts – some of the bots seems to just start at post ID 1 and continue on … so they got your draft posts because they were within the correct ID range :p These bots do not access an entry page and somehow fill in the comment fields and hit the submit button – they send the comment information directly to the WP script which processes the comment information. Which is why there doesn’t have to be a published comment for them to spam it – just as long as the comment is in the database, it is enough …
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Anonymous
Ah. Thanks for the info. Ever since I installd the WP-Blacklist it stopped. Thanks!
All it takes is a simple html file set to post to the proper target (wp-comments-post.php in this case.)…. there is a way to help discourage it, it’s not 100% effective in spam, but it will stop the comments on non-existant posts.
http://wordpress.org/support/3/15521
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