Monday, October 28, 2013

Spam links can be invisibly embedded in comments

The pseudonymous John of Gordon's Tech reports that spammers have discovered a means to put links into comments so they don't appear to be links when we're doing moderation.

Now he mentions it, I've been seeing plenty of comments lately which might be something similar to

 "Nice info, thanks for sharing. Facebook developers"
all in plain text. And also the "signature" has often been something that's much less relevant than this.

I became thinking that they are naive, and didn't know how to put links into comments, so was deleting them as an alternative to marking as spam. Time to change please note moderation policy, I think, around the spam-shute they go.

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