phil ringnalda

Sometimes, I hear, I’m too obscure and convoluted for my own good.

If you have any sort of a comment blacklist, you need to very carefully add two domains to it: wblogs.com and blogstudio.net. That’s not weblogs.com, where lots of nice people run Radio weblogs, or blogs.com where lots of nice people run Typepad weblogs, or blogstudio.com, another blog hosting service I don’t know a thing about. No e, with a w, and dot net.

If you don’t have a comment blacklist, keep an eye on your comments, and if you get a short comment in slightly fractured English linking to either one, quite likely with the link in the body after a //, it’s not what it seems. Even if you go look at the link, and it looks like a blog, it isn’t. It’s just stolen content, written in with Javascript, hiding the fact that the page is nothing but some internal links, and a slug of links to incest porn and various other delighful sites that have long since made the MT Blacklist.