Is this spam?

Asked by Vincentt (8094

) December 16th, 2008

On my blog, I received this comment. I replied to that.

However, today, I received this comment and this comment, and when I saw those listed above each other my first reaction was “oh, more spam again”. Then I saw that the former was a reply to my reply to the first comment. However, the latter came out of nowhere.

So now I’m wondering whether the first comment is just intelligent automated spam? I mean, I can imagine that a bot would be smart enough to refer to screenshots and a word (“panel”, in this case) that occurs frequently on a page.

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You’re referring to “sgt baker,” right? It seems like someone just asking a question and saying thanks. I’m not sure why you think it’s spam.

Nice looking blog, by the way.

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Yep, “sgt baker” it is. The comment that made me think it is spam was the last one I linked to, which seems related to nothing at all. Of course, it might also just be a mistake by the poster, I guess.

Thanks :)

Vincentt (8094

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Hmm. Wasn’t he just saying thanks for a personal reply to his question? Or am I missing something?

Trustinglife (6671

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Doesn’t look like spam to me? It’s not like they’re spamming anything. Going around blogs and saying “thanks” to everything without posting links or talking about xyz product sure would be a strange (and quite pleasant) way to spam. Confused poster, I think. :)

richardhenry (12692

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And hey yeah, nice blog!

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