Part of the reason for my post on behavior modification yesterday was a test.
Now, I must find out the culprit.
Over the past couple of months I’ve noticed that whenever we have written about “H3althc4re” here at RNS, we are inundated with pseudo “h3athc4are” spam in the form of comments and trackbacks shortly thereafter. Yesterday proved that this was no fluke.
15 phony trackbacks and more than 50 phony comments were bounced (with only one getting through the spam blocker).
Is someone out there trying to keep people from writing about this topic or do they actually think that someone is going to hit one of their phony links?
Anyone else with a blog out there notice this?
‘Nother theory: you’ve picked up trolls with spambots.
You and I write on the same subjects quite a bit, Phil. If there were bots, I’d get the same treatment, and since we use kissing cousin anti bot systems, the results would match, but they don’t.
My guess is that a troll from one of the lefty blogs you lurk at has botted RNS.
a little work with Arin WhoIs should give you your culprit, then spekes with their ISP should get them shut down.