12th century Chinese calligraphy. It's lovely, but I don't want to see it in my "comments"!
I began to notice lately that quite a few of my old blog posts have popped up on my Google Analytics list of my "most popular posts" and, in addition, I noted these particular posts had dozens and dozens of "comments" attached to them. Trouble in blog land.
It wasn't until I opened up the files, that I noticed the "comments" were all in Asian languages, Russian characters, and French--mostly--and had evil backlinks embedded in them.
One blog post had a sort of Trojan Horse "comment" embedded in it that when I deleted the "comments" one by one, the last one I deleted added all the others back in!
I went through the comment moderations section of my blog setup and raised the level of my spam filter so that all comments would have to be moderated and each commenter would have to do that letter test. I don't really like that, but it's preferential to having a bunch of backlinks for Viagra and Cialis (and worse) embedded in my posts, going back to blog posts I wrote back when I started the blog in 2008.
I read on Google's Blogspot web site that this is a growing problem. Spam filters for mailboxes are getting much better so now the crazy virus people are going after blogs.
What a pain in the neck!
It's like STDs--pardon the expression--for blogs and it tends to make one wary.
Anyway, just wanted readers to know why I've added some filters to commenting. I'm looking to keep those Trojan Horses from coming inside the corral.
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