I was struck overnight as well. My hope is that it is an isolated incident. If not, then I will resort to more Dragonian measures on my blog. Fortunately, the SPAM comments were harmless and not offending.
Harmless, but having the link is risky so I started to delete them. Then I realised the comment was just repeating an earlier comment... Well, that just struck me as rude so I decided time to put on moderation. Now, if they appear again, I can flag them as spam and maybe Google can do something about them.
I hope I don't have to remove anonymous comments as I share posts from this blog to related Yahoo and Facebook wargaming groups.
The comment wasn't offensive, just repeating an earlier comment, but then was followed by two links that relate to goldenslot and gclub-online which (without following the link, but looking at them as potentially resolved by Chrome) appear to be a casino. A fellow blogger pointed this out to me using the term "gold casino spam" and the term has stuck.
I was struck overnight as well. My hope is that it is an isolated incident. If not, then I will resort to more Dragonian measures on my blog. Fortunately, the SPAM comments were harmless and not offending.
ReplyDeleteHarmless, but having the link is risky so I started to delete them. Then I realised the comment was just repeating an earlier comment... Well, that just struck me as rude so I decided time to put on moderation. Now, if they appear again, I can flag them as spam and maybe Google can do something about them.
DeleteI hope I don't have to remove anonymous comments as I share posts from this blog to related Yahoo and Facebook wargaming groups.
I flagged mine as SPAM. We will see if Google can adjust.
DeleteJust out of curiosity, what constitutes "gold casino spam"--something truly offensive? I never encountered the term before.
ReplyDeleteChris
The comment wasn't offensive, just repeating an earlier comment, but then was followed by two links that relate to goldenslot and gclub-online which (without following the link, but looking at them as potentially resolved by Chrome) appear to be a casino. A fellow blogger pointed this out to me using the term "gold casino spam" and the term has stuck.
DeleteIt would appear to be just spam.