Comments on: Comments All Clear Signal

By: Grant

Grant — Sun, 01 Aug 2004 15:19:15 +0000

Joe, yes, of course, what was I thinking. I am still wondering how “as” and “lucid” got into the MTB. If this is a useful anti-anti-spamming device, we should see more of it. Thanks, Grant

By: Joe Grossberg

Joe Grossberg — Sun, 01 Aug 2004 15:05:50 +0000

Grant:

This page (000158.html) will be indexed by Google: title, body, comments, etc.

Which is exactly why jerks want to pam our comment sections in the first place.

By: Grant

Grant — Sat, 31 Jul 2004 21:04:42 +0000

Steve, thanks, Grant

By: Steve Portigal

Steve Portigal — Sat, 31 Jul 2004 19:19:35 +0000

It definitely looks through comments. I have a http://www.googlealert.com set up (actually an RSS feed) to see where I get mentioned (vanity, or good business, you decide) and my comments to this blog (and others) show up now and again as hits.

By: Grant

Grant — Sat, 31 Jul 2004 19:11:23 +0000

Joe,

good point.

The solution is to evoke the MT Blacklist and from the choices at the top of the page, choose, “List.”

This will give you “URL fragments.” There are 1500 fragments on my blacklist and you have to scroll through looking for any word without a suffix. I had looked for the word “as” before but had somehow missed it. This time, I found both “as” and “lucid.”

Presumably, these went into my blacklist when I was deleting spam. So someone has created a “reverse trojan horse” that insinuates desirable tags into the system when it blocks undesirable ones. Cunning. Happily, we know that there is a special place in hell for all spammers.

Grant

p.s., Joe, do you think Google looks through “comments” or only posts?

By: Joe Grossberg

Joe Grossberg — Sat, 31 Jul 2004 18:22:44 +0000

No problem.

BTW, you might want to mention what the issue was — that way if someone Googles for the same problem, they’ll know how to solve it.

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