Comments on: Praise Spam http://erikras.com/2008/01/15/praise-spam/ Thoughts and photos from an American living in Spain. Tue, 22 May 2012 18:38:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Hubbers http://erikras.com/2008/01/15/praise-spam/#comment-1761 Hubbers Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:33:25 +0000 http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/2008/01/15/praise-spam/#comment-1761 "Praise Spam" - great name! Sometimes I get "disagree spam" e.g. <em>I see what you are trying to say but I disagree with your conclusions. pornlink pornlink pornlink Russian pharmaceuticals link Russian pharmaceuticals link Russian pharmaceuticals link </em> It's hard to imagine someone being fooled by this method. Still if you can hit 500,000 blogs in a day you are bound to get some traffic. Something else that got me was that the spammers always hit the same blog entry. I closed the comments on this entry http://www.hubbers.com/blog/?p=229 and the problem disappeared. Although I guess my blog gets a lot less links and traffic than yours so I'm not sure this would work for you. “Praise Spam” – great name! Sometimes I get “disagree spam” e.g.

I see what you are trying to say but I disagree with your conclusions.

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It’s hard to imagine someone being fooled by this method. Still if you can hit 500,000 blogs in a day you are bound to get some traffic.

Something else that got me was that the spammers always hit the same blog entry. I closed the comments on this entry http://www.hubbers.com/blog/?p=229 and the problem disappeared. Although I guess my blog gets a lot less links and traffic than yours so I’m not sure this would work for you.

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