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What Is With These Weird Comments?

by sportsfan54
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On one of my sites I keep seeing comments that are left as just a bunch on letters that don't make sense. Like this...

JWei2v igyektakkufb, rjdvtzrvhler, [link=http://yieifwybqpmz.com/]yieifwybqpmz[/link], http://fwyrpusshvgx.com/

I'm curious what is going on, is this from people using bots try to do automatic blog commenting?
#comments #weird
  • Profile picture of the author jamesrich1
    Most likely foreign countries with a software like scrapebox. Put a protector on and you should have no problems. Those comments get through if you don't have a filter so people keep doing them. Watch out for english written comments that are saying real general stuff those are mostly scrapebox users.
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    • Profile picture of the author Landis
      Yeah, those are foreign comments. Are they from scrapebox- could very well be, but there are other blog commenters out there as well. Just run akismet and you'll be fine!
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    • Profile picture of the author Karen Blundell
      here's how to stop that from happening if you have a WordPress-driven site:

      download Conditional Captcha

      it's stops the bots from posting comments...

      very cool plugin and one of the most valuable ones, in my opinion, that works hand in hand with Akismet.
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      • Profile picture of the author sportsfan54
        Is there a free version of akismet?

        In order to activate it on my site I have to pay for it.
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        • Profile picture of the author Karen Blundell
          Originally Posted by sportsfan54 View Post

          Is there a free version of akismet?

          In order to activate it on my site I have to pay for it.
          what? Akismet is a free plugin that comes with WordPress.
          In order to activate it, you need to create an account at WordPress.com to get the API key.
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          • Profile picture of the author slw081066
            Originally Posted by Karen Blundell View Post

            what? Akismet is a free plugin that comes with WordPress.
            In order to activate it, you need to create an account at WordPress.com to get the API key.
            Akismet is free for personal use, but not for business use.
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  • Profile picture of the author Manuelcrc
    Use Akismet to stop the spam comments. you'll need it
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  • Profile picture of the author myeanne
    some members are using that just to spam.
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