I was looking through comments today on my Craft Fair Vendor hub and I found this comment near the bottom
"my service pledge to make your time and money spend on us the most memorable one with some of the lovely escort service in [redacted URL] all you need to do is just.
We provide escorts and l call girls in delhi. We deals in punjabi girls"
I have my account set up where I have to approve all comments - and I definitely would not have approved this! I think someone may have come up with a workaround to post spam in hub comments and thought I should bring it to everyone's attention.
To see any spam comments on your Hubs you need to change the filter in the Comments section from 'unmoderated' to 'spam' as they only show up for you to view if you change the filter. They are still unapproved although you can see them if you look at the comments on a Hub (This is what I was told when I reported the same issue in the forum recently). Now I've started checking regularly for any spam using the Comments tab in My Account, because there were more spam comments than I was previously aware of, and now I can quickly delete them.
That is really awful and against the rules. Thanks I guess we all need to be extra watchful out there and report spam comments etc..when we come across them. Since we are a family friendly site it is good to get rid of those spammers asap...
Thanks for sharing,
Matt
by Liz Elias 10 years ago
Normally, I approve 99% of all comments left on my hubs. But twice today, and once yesterday, there were comments left, all by "anonymous," that I simply denied because they were just way out of line.Not demeaning, offensive, hateful, or anything like that...just WAY off topic.In...
by Amara Hassan 2 years ago
Greetings fellowsI am wondering why my comments are not being shown on other Hubber's articles, may be they are going spam. Dnt know the reasons. Any idea?
by Andrew Orrell 11 years ago
Usually when a new comment is made on one of my hubs a little green number appears where it says notifications. However, I was just on the kind of home page where there is a feed of activity and I noticed a new comment that had not shown up as a notification.The comment was pure rubbish and...
by Brandon Lobo 3 years ago
If I am not wrong comments were moderated before we were given the chance to view them and choose to accept or deny it, at least in case of unregistered users. Am I wrong in thinking this was the case and it was just something on QnA?If it was, is this no longer the case?I have been getting a lot...
by Faith Reaper 9 years ago
I just went under my account page and clicked on Comments, and much to my surprise and delight there were pages of comments! However, after a closer look, they are all comment made by me on others' hubs from the past 19 hours to well over 13 months ago! And ... to boot, I have the...
by Melody Collins 10 years ago
I receved a comment that is strange and disturbing. I won't be approving it, but i don't really know what to do. The comment has nothing to do with my content. Instead i is writen like a response letter to me. It makes it look like I am participating in something that breaks Googles adsense TOS. I...
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