I'm being targeted by someone. | Bloggers Lair | Yakezie Forums

Post edited 6:01 am – April 27, 2013 by theSarayiahpost

Jenny @ FrugalGuruGuide said:

I don't know whether it's a troll who is hanging out here or someone else in the PF community, but it's ticking me off.

 

Guess because I haven't used Google AdSense, they have to find other ways to try to interfere with me than clickbombing.  But I follow the TOS of every group I work with, and I follow the law, too.

 

I'm here to stay.  I don't play the sleaze game, and I don't appreciate those who do.

 

I'd be pretty sad to discover that the reason that others got clickbombed and I got harassed in other ways was because there's someone reading Yakezie who wants new bloggers to fail.  If the attacker is a reader here:  You're an idiot.  I could make you a pretty nice chunk of change because of the way I'm approaching this.  If you want to be a part of that, you can.  You want to attack me?  You're cutting off your nose to spite your face.

Hi Jenny. Really sorry to hear that. How awful and distressing. These people don't realise the harm they cause to others, but there is karma.

In the meantime – do you have access to your daily visitor stats – if so can you identify them via their IP address?  Then you can block them in control panel on your server if they have a static ip. I would also speak to your host and tell them what is going on and they should be able to block them at the server level too.  Definitely speak to your host about this in any event.

Further once you have their IP address they can be traced and you should also contact their ISP and tell them what is happening. No-one is anonymous on the web.

Hope this helps and you have a lovely day.

Love

Isaac

xx

Jenny @ FrugalGuruGuide said:

The person is reporting stuff I'm doing off my blog as violations of various TOS, even though they aren't and are 100% legit.  So I'm having to get reinstated for various things.  

I do know how to catch IPs–an obnoxious link-building type of blackhat SEO service found my blog earlier this week, and I've been dealing with them using Stat Counter plus some filtering.  :/  Annoying, but that's pretty much inevitable when you have a blog.  After I stopped their pingbacks, they started commenting a bunch.  They may even be doing it manually because I have the anti-spam-bot javascript checkbox enabled.  If so, they're crazy, because I have NO link juice AT ALL to give on my site, seeing as it's been in existence a month.  It's totally weird that they'd go after me.  Back when I had a blog that had 30k visits a month, spam links kinda made sense.  To hit someone so low ranked BY HAND is just weird and misguided.

As regards the spam comments – why don't you make it so that all comments have to be approved by you before they are published on your blog?

theSarayiahpost said:

Jenny @ FrugalGuruGuide said:

I'd prefer to have them post immediately.  It's better for visitors with other blogs if they do that.  If I have to, I will, but at the moment, the filters I've made are catching 100% of the spam an no one else, so that's pretty much ideal.  :)

Are you using Akismet as so many seem to? If you are you should be careful as personally I wouldn't use it, as it catches comments that aren't spam and just deletes them without you even being able to check and to me that wouldn't make me happy as a visitor to your site.

Actually, Akismet doesn't delete anything. It just moves them to the Spam folder. There you can check for false positives and click on the "not spam" link for that comment to move it to pending (where you then have to go to approve it). After I've removed any false positives, then you can click the "empty spam" button to delete the actual spam messages.

No, I have the "click if you are human" checkbox, which is why I think that some of the spam may be done by hand.

That doesn't send anything to spam!  It just refuses to post it.

Can you invert the checkbox, as in "Only check this box if you're not human"? Many spam scripts check boxes and fill fields by default. In fact, that's how some of the more effective plugins work — by creating hidden fields that a real human couldn't fill out since they never see them. So if the field gets filled you know it's a bot.

Akismet has been the bane of my existence. I'm with you, Jenny: no Akismet for me….

Wow, who has the time to do this to somebody? That's insane. Sorry you have to deal with it!