I have been fighting a distributed, wp-trackback comment spam ‘attack’. Along with this I have been ‘discovered’ by distinct automated wp-trackback comment spammers. And putting on my tin-foil hat, I thought about that for a minute.
What if this was not just a advertising spam campaign? None of the comment spam I looked at (and I looked at a great deal) was not appealing, nothing I read would encourage a reader of the spam to follow the links. So you could say that the content was ineffective. Just random noise, only made to look like spam.
The second thought was that it was focused on WordPress software, and the bloggers that used WordPress. From what I can gather WordPress has become the choice of bloggers running their own sites.
Yet a third Idea, came to mind in that trackback is one of the important interconnects between websites, and part of the defense of this spam attack, was to break this interconnect.
So, if this were an attack, what would be it’s purpose?
1) an attack by a rival blogger software system competing with WordPress?
2) an attack by someone to herd bloggers on to one of the big blogger sites?
3) an attempt to break the relationships in the blogger community? (political?)
4) a … Well you fill in the next one ….
in any case, I’m taking off the tin-foil hat as it’s making my head hurt.
The wp-trackback spam is a pain in the ass, and it really sucks having to deal with it.