Elizabeth Cholet (zrusilla), Paris.pm.
]]>Some cases are borderline: if the same link was just part of the body of a comment signed by a person, it would constitute a legitimate contribution to the discussion. But in this case the linked page shills a product that only has a tenuous keywordy connection to the content of your own post, which makes it obvious and unsubtle spam.
There are bots that search for blog posts with certain keywords in order to spam them with comments that aren’t completely unrelated to the content of the post, in the hope that they will appear relevant at a glance and thus survive a cursory check. (This one slipped even past me, initially; only your reply to it woke me up.) And since some comment forms filter out link tags, in order to maximise chances with a carpet-bombing approach, the comment contains the link in both the body and the link field of the form (hopefully at least one of those will work) – with a name added to the comment body to distract from the name the comment is actually signed with.
Anyway, I marked the comment as spam. I hope you don’t mind that I also deleted your “thank you” reply to it.
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