Has anyone else noticed a new trend in comment spam?\u00a0 “StenXXXX” makes a comment where the only links are in the identifying data for the post.\u00a0 The body of the comment is some variation of “Life’s not worth living.”<\/p>\n
Since I personally scan my Akismet-identified comment spam looking for legit comments before deleting it (especially during BookPack Giveaways), it’s an adjustment.\u00a0 One trigger for comment spam is many, many links.\u00a0 This spam looks more like a real comment.\u00a0 Fortunately, before I approve suspect comments, I check it more closely for other factors that a real person wrote it.\u00a0 “Sten”‘s moping doesn’t pass.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Has anyone else noticed a new trend in comment spam?\u00a0 “StenXXXX” makes a comment where the only links are in the identifying data for the post.\u00a0 The body of the comment is some variation of “Life’s not worth living.” Since I personally scan my Akismet-identified comment spam looking for legit …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}