Steve Bennett wrote:
On 2/7/07, Mark Clements gmane@kennel17.co.uk wrote:
The similarities are that the pages titles always contain index.php?title=xx (with various depths of /w or /wiki) and that the message is congratulating us on our site. The user is always an anon, but without being able to
I think spambots use thes "congratulatory" messages to maximise their chances of staying on the site. Which of these would you[1] delete:
Check out my site! http://...
You have an awesome site! I spent a while here and it's really fantastic. The quality of information is amazing. Would you be interested in checking out my site? http://
Steve [1] Ok, not "you", but...
Yep, and in Movable Type's master comments list, it gets cropped to "You have an awesome site! I spend a while here and it's..." (And they were just getting to the good part.) You have to open up the comment to read it in full, and they're banking on people being too busy to do that. I assume other blogging software does something similar.