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Airline Travel: Your source for regurgitated blog posts ... or something

I've gotten a lot of questions about the "pingback" stuff in my blog's Comments sections. I'm not a Community Server expert, but I'd love to know how to prevent them from appearing. If you do know, please, drop me a note.

In any event, one of the weirdest and most common pingbacks is from a "blog" called "Airline Travel," which appears to be an automatically generated attempt at getting cheap ad revenues. It just mindlessly reposts everything I write here, and does the same to a bunch of other sites too, from the look of it. These posts are always accompanied by an ad. Of course.

To be clear, the Airline Travel blog is utterly without any value whatsoever. I'm just curious to see if they'll mindlessly repost this posting. Either way, the site is ridiculous.

Published Mar 25 2008, 12:02 PM by pthurrott
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Airline Travel » Airline Travel: Your source for regurgitated blog posts … or something said:

Pingback from  Airline Travel » Airline Travel: Your source for regurgitated blog posts … or something

March 25, 2008 11:10 AM
 

Airline Travel » Airline Travel: Your source for regurgitated blog posts … or something said:

Pingback from  Airline Travel » Airline Travel: Your source for regurgitated blog posts … or something

March 25, 2008 11:10 AM
 

Auras said:

Try this: communityserver.org/.../546536.aspx

I don't know if it's *exactly* what I think it is but if it is then it's one of the best.

Akismet is used on almost all instalations of wordpress and wordpress.com and stops about 99.9% of all spam.

March 25, 2008 11:58 AM
 

mdsharpe said:

the pingbacks are very annoying.

you could perhaps somehow filter all comments which have text beginning with "Pingback from"

March 25, 2008 2:29 PM
 

Turbulence said:

Do they even mean to do the pingbacks?

March 25, 2008 4:31 PM
 

Auras said:

@Turbulence: yeah, pingback are automatically enabled in wordpress, which is what airline travel runs.

March 25, 2008 4:43 PM
 

Cfischer83 said:

First two posts... that's hilarious! Sorry, but it is ;)

March 25, 2008 9:08 PM
 

sttevo said:

Cfischer83 I laughed too... hilarity.

Paul I suspect these bots are automatically posting to sites like this one to improve link-backs to their own website therefore improving their page rank for search engines.  Why don't you try enabling CAPTCHA (en.wikipedia.org/.../Captcha) on your forms?  That way you'll eliminate the automatic posts.  

Apparently Community Server supports it: docs.communityserver.org/.../how-flexible-is-the-platform-in-its-ability-to-be-customized

If you need any help just let email me and I'd be happy to help...

March 26, 2008 8:11 AM
 

pthurrott said:

Thanks guys. I will see what I can do about this. I'm a CS neophyte, but I'll get there.

BTW... LOL that Airline Travel did, indeed, link automatically to this post ... Twice. Ahahaha. They have since manually removed the links. Good stuff.

March 26, 2008 8:28 AM
 

georgeanoop said:

community.winsupersite.com/.../ManageSpamRules.aspx

have you tryed the built in spam rules feature of Community server?

I use it on our church website and it seems to work pretty well.

March 27, 2008 2:50 PM

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