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Is this spam?

Asked by Vincentt (8094points) 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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7 Answers

Trustinglife's avatar

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.

Vincentt's avatar

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 :)

Trustinglife's avatar

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

richardhenry's avatar

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's avatar

And hey yeah, nice blog!

dynamicduo's avatar

I don’t think it looks like spam, just someone who’s actually taken the time to say thanks instead of taking the info and leaving with no comment.

Vincentt's avatar

Omg, how ignorant am I? Of course people can just say thanks in reply to the post 0.o.

I guess I just became paranoid because a lot of spam has been getting through akismet lately…

Thanks everyone for the comments on the blog itself as well :)

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