19.12.2013 - 14:08 [ Techdirt ]

The Joy Of Watching Comment Spammers Scramble To Try To Delete Links After Google Demoted Them

Starting a few months back, we started noticing a weird trend here at Techdirt. Every two or three days, we‘d get an email from someone asking us, politely, to please remove a comment they had posted. Every single time, it was someone who had somehow gotten comment spam through our (pretty good) multi-layer comment spam filter (which catches more than 1,000 spam comments per day). Each one reads something like the following: