Blogging Suspended for Now
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I am not sure what is going on, but I’m getting some really huge bunches of spa*m, and some of it is suspicious. I need time to investigate.
It really irks me to have my content stolen and put on a spammer’s website as a “blog entry.” Just because I mention a keyword randomly that someone else is homing in on, that does not mean that my entry is worth linking to another blog, which is really just a robotic compendium of stolen content veiled as “ooh, check out this blog entry” with a pingback.
I had some content stolen from an defunct and archived website. I have no recourse because the owners of the website have closed up shop and disappeared for all intents and purposes. Or they may have sold the content…. against our agreement. I still hold the copyright to the content, which are some personal stories that I’d rather own and get credit for? but the links are all 10 years old and broken, so I’m getting nothing out of the “mention” and the content is polluted because it’s on a spammer site.
So I need to rethink my whole rationale for doing what I’m doing. Maybe it’s a Word Press issue, maybe it’s not. I don’t know. I will have a solution or workaround in a few days, hours.
Thanks for reading. (I’m ticked off about this too because I had a semi-big announcement - a drawing for prizes!)
May 16th, 2008 at 9:51 am
I think it might be WordPress. I haven’t gotten spam on the order you’re describing, and I’m not aware of any of my content being stolen, but one of my cross stitch posts is inexplicably linked via a naruto picture on another WP blog. I think I’m getting naruto hits this way, too, but I haven’t explored. If kiddles want to look at Naruto pics, and they find his drawings via botlinks, I’m ok.
May 16th, 2008 at 10:52 am
That really stinks! I’ve seen those fake “this is my blog” sites with the weird content; I didn’t realize they were trolling for it from other people’s blogs. I hope you figure out a solution quickly; how frustrating.
May 16th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Since I’m still a novice in the blogosphere, how are you able to determine that content has been stolen? I mean, I know how to see if images are being hotlinked from a site to another site, but as far as text goes…?
If you’d rather mail me, that’s fine, too.
May 17th, 2008 at 6:59 am
here is one of the “comments” (trackbacks?) that I got… simply keyed to the word g0lf.
GeoffShackelford.com wrote an interesting post today on Performance as ArtHere’s a quick excerptGolf claps to the little girl and her footmen! I also love…
And the link goes to a pseudo-blog that is a link farm for questionable but not dirty videos… the site has nothing to do with g0lf NOR DOES MY SITE, or that post. As far as I can tell, robots are digging up keywords, grabbing little pieces as “excerpts” and inserting them in auto-posts as “fresh content” - which is really just a way to update their site, spread their roots across the interwebs and drive traffic to their link farm where it’s pay-per-click.
I’m sick and tired of being a content producer who gets exploited and ripped off in the name of “sharing links.” I’ll have to publish legitimately… and in the meantime, I’m looking for a better way to blog/journal publically. LJ has its drawbacks, Vox is too “noisy” for me, and I left Blogger for I can’t remember why… but none of them had the same horrible sp*m issues as this.
Time to refocus, reframe. I’ve got a business to launch and can’t be mucking about with this stuff.
May 17th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Well, I for one love you with or without your spam-a-lot.
Although I have never before posted a comment to your blog, I have read every single one (since the one you wrote to ‘me’ - as I like to think of it) and I am so glad you write them.
And BTW here is a strange coincidence for you.. that comment was from Geoff Shackelford, no?
I used to date (no, not date)…. furiously snog a man named Geoff, and I think we both know what kind of odd spelling that is for the US - and at the same time, a guy I worked with was in a band called “Shackleford Brown”. I read that comment in some kind of time-warp. Weird.
Anyways, I love you! And I’m sending hugs and kitty snoggles across the pond.