I’ve been getting a load of Russian-language comments on my blog in the past couple of weeks. Yet my google analytics doesn’t report any visitors coming from Russia. How can this be?
Google Search for “russian comment spam”. Apparently this is a common habit for spammers coming from Russia. The only real way I have to block it is to block all posts coming from the .ru TLD, which is unfortunate because I actually have received friendly comments from people in Russia.
The spams usually have some non sequitur kind of thing to say, occasionally praising the author or the validity of the post – with the user’s home page being a link to a porn site, a pizza delivery site, a movies download site … etc. I paste the comment into translate.google.com to see what it says, usually I can understand what the translation means. I ask my girlfriend what these comments say when we’re both home from work (she’s fluent in Russian).
So this is the choice I have had to make. Any post in Russian cyrillic is marked as spam. Any post coming from a .ru domain is marked as spam. I can apologize to my real readers coming from Russia, but I’m not going to put up with this spam bullshit any more. Blame the spammers in your country.
Russian comment spam
I’ve been getting a load of Russian-language comments on my blog in the past couple of weeks. Yet my google analytics doesn’t report any visitors coming from Russia. How can this be?
Google Search for “russian comment spam”. Apparently this is a common habit for spammers coming from Russia. The only real way I have to block it is to block all posts coming from the .ru TLD, which is unfortunate because I actually have received friendly comments from people in Russia.
The spams usually have some non sequitur kind of thing to say, occasionally praising the author or the validity of the post – with the user’s home page being a link to a porn site, a pizza delivery site, a movies download site … etc. I paste the comment into translate.google.com to see what it says, usually I can understand what the translation means. I ask my girlfriend what these comments say when we’re both home from work (she’s fluent in Russian).
So this is the choice I have had to make. Any post in Russian cyrillic is marked as spam. Any post coming from a .ru domain is marked as spam. I can apologize to my real readers coming from Russia, but I’m not going to put up with this spam bullshit any more. Blame the spammers in your country.
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