04-02-2010, 04:18 PM
Why use proxies? Because Akismet bans your IP when you submit comments to multiple sites using akismet. It records the IP of the submitter and the URL that you are promoting. So if you post several hundred within a few minutes, your IP will get banned by Akismet. If yours hasn't been banned (have you checked by the way?) - then have just been lucky. I do comment spam all the time and require the use of proxies otherwise the comments just get put in the akismet folder and then have to be manually approved which rarely happens.
You say you post 1 comment for each domain? I don't understand that - do you mean you don't spam the same domain with multiple comments? That's not the only thing that gets your IP in jeopardy. I can't post *ANY* comments on ANY wordpress sites that use akismet - using my own IP. The only time that it works are on boards that don't use akismet (but many do). So with proxies - my success rate goes up by at least 85%. That's why.
You say you post 1 comment for each domain? I don't understand that - do you mean you don't spam the same domain with multiple comments? That's not the only thing that gets your IP in jeopardy. I can't post *ANY* comments on ANY wordpress sites that use akismet - using my own IP. The only time that it works are on boards that don't use akismet (but many do). So with proxies - my success rate goes up by at least 85%. That's why.
(03-12-2010, 08:17 PM)Erik Creed Wrote: I never use proxies for harvesting, I've done lot's of harvesting and so far google has asked me to type in captcha like 3 or 4 times total when doing a search. It's temporary after some short period google seems to delete this information because everything is back to normal.
If you really want to avoid akismet and other wordpress anti-spam tools sure go ahead and use proxies. In my oppinion proxies are of no use if you don't intend to do pinging to increase counts.
I tend to focus more on making sure comment is unique, I post 1 comment for each domain, and email and name is different everytime I try to post.
I don't understand why everyone is so worried about proxies.
(03-12-2010, 08:01 PM)tucker13 Wrote: but for harvesting, would you get your IP banned if you keep hitting the SE with your own IP?