I allow comments on my site, but the commenter must be a registered user, and I approve all comments. Anyone can self-register. I use these setting in the blog software on my site, WordPress, to keep spammers from posting messages to my site.
A few weeks ago I started seeing new users registering, but not leaving comments. There isn’t much of a reason to register as a user other than to comment. Still, I see really weird usernames all associated with free email providers. I have started waiting a few days to see if the user comments, and if not, I delete them. But I am not seeing any spam comments.
I am not quite sure what the game is here. Perhaps the spam software is probing for vulnerabilities, or checking to see if any user can author articles? It is just a slight annoyance as it really doesn’t take much to delete some users, and I can always turn off comments since they really aren’t used very much.
Not sure, but this behavior has given some insight into the evil hearts of spammers.
