Battling Foreign Langage Comment Spam
Here I go again! Talking about Fighting Comment SPAM on the blog and how to deal with never-ending stream of attempts to sneak one in! But this time I want to discuss something that I have seen increase lately, maybe just on my blog but still quite annoying:
Foreign Language Comment Spam
Because of the plugins I have already implemented on my blog – automated comment spam is non-existent but I still get a few comments, manually submitted that need my attention, evaluation and finally determination if they should be approved.
WORD OF WARNING TO SPAMMERS: I can click “SPAM” button a lot faster than you can type your comment!
But I have to admit, when a comment comes from someone not native English Speaking and links back to a NON-English site – it is sometimes not very obvious if it is spam or valid comment by someone who doesn’t have a solid grasp of English.
Here is latest example…
First of all – I want to be fair to all commenters on my blog! I want to approve your comment and give you benefit of a backlink, even if your language is not perfect (god knows my own English desires improvements too). And I even approve some comments by accident, since it looks like a VALID comment and even calls me by name – see below:
And quite frankly that Name got me confused at first because it IS NOT a site name, which is often used by these type of spammers. In most cases it would have probably made it through, since on first glance it seems like valid comment but unfortunately for that person I had a bit of time to investigate and eventually send this comment to SPAM!
And here is why…
When I visited the URL provided by commenter – nothing obvious jumped at me and only my curiosity forced me to look a bit more. Interestingly, even without understanding the word, I found that it is one keyword that site is optimized for – see image below:
Hello Mister Spammer! Click Goes The “SPAM” Button!
Was it worth the time I spent on it? To me it was, but I would appreciate your thoughts and ideas on this topic!
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- Open Letter to Blog Comment Spammers (socialmediatoday.com)
- How Blog Spam Works (joetech.com)
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Spammers are annoying. I never understand why they spend their time on these spam tactics as opposed to just doing it the legit way. Both take up time, but one has a negative impact on your business.
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Yeah, I have a dating site, and I get those stupid spammers on all the time. At least if they participated I might let things slide, but all they do is message everybody with their stupid stories (get rich or get to know you). I’ seriously thinking about blocking whole countries from viewing my site.
I just opened a new niche site and I keep getting French spam every day. It’s really frustrating.
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Spammers are annoying but comment moderation and image verification (captcha)has made the life of webmasters much comfortable.
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I have a translator type tool bar thing that pops up when ever I hit a foreign site; easy to see what’s what.
i think it’s provided by the Google toolbar installed.
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We get a lot of attempted spam on our site as well, most of them are extremely obvious, they will make a comment with a double name eg “david david” not really sure why, but it must be an automated spam because the name changes every couple of days. They are persistant, I’ll give them that. I just wish they would put there efforts into something legitimate instead of hassling me.
I get hundreds of those weird spams each week. It is the price of blogging I guess.
I honestly can’t think of anyone I know personally that doesn’t automatically dump their spam without looking at it (well maybe the guys need to do a tad more research on certain emails
).
Seriously other than my rich Nigerian uncle who was kind enough to remember me in his time of need… does anyone even pay attention to comment spam???
I know they are desperately trying to get backlinks, but it’s kind of dumb to backlink a comment from a “whatever it’s about” site to your super awesome Viagra emporium or whatever scam they are running. Even if your running a program to do it.
Everyday I read the Chicago Tribune, & every day the same spammer hits the comments with offers of cheap tee shirts & whatnot. If a major newspaper can’t even block the same guy/gal/robot — what chance does a regular joe/jane blogger have.
Ok, off my rant
Leah
How do you find Akismet for blocking spam?
You are really determined …But just think if someone write sth to your english blog with a foreign language. it is %100 spam …Why would someone write somewhere he/she can not read ?
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In that case yes, but please see example I provided above – they wrote in English