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Does Grammarly work to identify Comment Scams on Blogs?

Brian Patterson
posted this on May 24, 2011 20:49

You sometimes see the same offers across many different blogs by random people in the comments on any given topic. Can I use Grammarly to help me make sure I remove these scam comments from my site? I was thinking that, maybe in the beginning I would just run any comments I suspected to be fraudulent manually through Grammarly to see if the comments had been published anywhere else online. I figure that, if someone is promoting a scam, they are probably leaving the same comment in lots of different places.

Over time, maybe I can figure out how to automatically send the suspect-comments to grammarly for review, but for now I'm just going to do it manually. Do you have any thoughts on this Grammarly Scam hunter / killer? I think it has potential, and am going to toy with the idea.

 

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Valerie
Applied Linguistics LLC

Brian,

You can use Grammarly for tracking down these sorts of posts which may occur in more than one webpage. This isn't automated currently, so it will need to be a manual process. Depending on the purposing of the site, it may prove useful. If you are providing answers to questions which could be posted elsewhere, you may get a lot of false positives. 

Hope this helps.

May 24, 2011 21:13
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chania

i agree with you valerie because gramm

July 19, 2011 23:08
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chania

i meant grammar sorry about that 

July 19, 2011 23:11