Watch out for clickable smiley faces people leave in comments. When I was checking comments the other day I almost approved one because it was a nice comment and they didn’t even leave a link to their site or at least there wasn’t a visible one until I ran my cursor over all the words and hit the smiley face at the end and there it was. I was surprised that someone could do that needless to say that comment went straight to Akismet.
The link wasn’t a very nice link and to think I almost let it slip pass really ticks me off at how sly people are getting with their spam comments. I’m sure in future they may come up with something that will slip past and that’s a shame because most people don’t even check something like a smiley and I have no clue why I did this time, but from now on when I see one I’ll be sure to run my cursor over it. I’ve been getting so much spam lately that I”ve just been hitting delete.
I use to go through and check for legitimate comments, but with all the trash I see I stopped not that I’m a prude, but it’s so boring to see all the repetitious crap. It would be so nice if it would stop, but I doubt it ever will. There for awhile I was getting funny spam, but that seems to have stopped. I can’t believe how many spammers actually take the time to register for this blog because they think they will be able to post comments. I usually go in and delete all those periodically.
Have a nice hump day and make sure you check those smileys before you approve your comments. I now have comments set so that after the first approved comment that person can now leave unmoderated comments. I’m hoping no one leaves a nice comment the first time then starts spamming if that happens then I’ll just switch back to moderating every single comment. If you leave comments and don’t see them then that means they slipped into Akismet somehow and got deleted.
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