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Posted 11 months, 2 weeks ago → Categories: chrasy stuff

Is anybody else getting comments that are technically spam, but could be genuine comments? For example, on my formal post, I got two that Akismet and Spam Karma didn’t think were spam:

Cute picture and cute couple. I suggest you get away with glasses though. Source

The whole glasses thing makes me think that it’s a genuine comment (but also makes me think I look hideously unattractive with glasses - I am going to have self esteem issues because of that comment :P) but the link that accompanied it - which I removed - was super suspicious.

Pictures says a thousand words, but if it could be described in one word, it would be “ADORABLE” source

I don’t know if I’m enough of a comment whore to keep them, they actually weird me out and I’m kind of disturbed by them!

  1. # Paula, 11 months, 2 weeks ago.

    I don’t have that problem but I just started with my blog so I don’t get a lot of comments. My problem with Akismet is that it keeps thinking some comments are spam when they’re not! :-/

  2. # Leila, 11 months, 2 weeks ago.

    Radio Detector? Cyprus Apartments? Bizarre.

    I forgot where I saw it, but I know that somebody posted somewhere about a new kind of comment spam that tricks the filters; they got a comment that offered to advertise their own site using that spam, or something.

    God knows a lot of us get such meaningless comments *cough* that it would be easy to spoof them like this so that they almost look real…le sigh.

  3. # Tracey, 11 months, 2 weeks ago.

    If that happens, I guess I’ll just have to do what I did with the other comments and remove the link. I’ll keep my comments, but no linky for them! :P

  4. # Xuan, 11 months, 2 weeks ago.

    O_O Righteo! Odd much? I’d say deletedeletedelete … *pokes them suspiciously* I’ve only had 2 spam comments so far that Akismet’s caught, one of which was actually a vulgar, barely insulting attack posted by someone who got squished and killed by us on Snark, so … *blink*

  5. # Kat, 11 months, 2 weeks ago.

    Comment whore to the core :-P

    Are you gonna take the link off of this? LOL! I think you should keep them but don’t remove the link because if it’s a genuine comment it’s not particularly nice to remove it. Just keep an eye out for future meaningless comments that they put up just to get a link to their site.

  6. # Amber, 11 months, 2 weeks ago.

    I’ve been getting a few like that! They even start off with something that is plausible, or end with something plausible but in between it’s simply full of links or repetitive words.

  7. # Britney, 11 months, 1 week ago.

    I’ve never gotten weird comments like that before. If there are links though, they are probably spam.

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