Comment spam is one of those things that are just stupid, annoying and irritating.
An automated program scours the web looking for a blog using software x. Regardless of the fact whether the user set his blog up to allow comments or not, it submits – as if filling the comment submission form – to the page that processes the comment postings.
If you are not careful, your blog can be overrun with postings that have garbage text and a link to a bogus – normally gambling – website.
All of this effort why? because they want ratings on Google as it measures how many links are pointed at a website and doing this will put a lot of links – who cares about permission – to their crappy website.
The fact that they post directly – even if you disable your comment posting page – is just a way for them to tell you they do not give a flight s-. I required that all comment postings be moderated by me to prevent such a situation. This innundated me with comment posting notifications.
The really crude cure – I just renamed the php page that processes the comment submission to something else. The deluge appears to have been finally stopped. Sheesh!
