So I’ve had my first encounters with the spammers of the blog world. I’d heard about them, but hadn’t really encountered them. For those who don’t know, this particular variety of parasite puts fake comments against your postings, along with a URL to their own site (in my case, some sort of online gambling site – classy!).
I gather the idea is for either other readers to follow the link, or for Google to improve their ranking as it indexes the blog. Either way, its &^%^&%^&% irritating!
Luckily WordPress has some neat features to detect this kind of stuff and put such comments in a moderation queue – they stay in this queue (and invisible to the rest of the world) until I approve it, or delete it.
Needless to say, I’ve now enabled these features and all is good with the world again 