It was just brought to my attention that Gravatar has been spamming people to join their service by pretending to be members of my “Team”.
I have found the offending setting and deactivated it.
All fictional members of my “Team” have been taken out back and introduced to some of the members of Phawkes’s “Team”, and by that I mean they were all shot in the head at close range, except the one that tried to run… That Phawkes can be a cruel bastard.
My apologies for the spam.
Only when fictionality has removed the constraints of law (human and physical) is it possible to give spammers what they actually deserve. People like Phawkes exist for a reason…
What setting is that? There are bloggers I know who would want to watch out for this.
In WordPress, under the Plugins tab there is a section called “Gravatar Signup Encouragement” that you have to deactivate.
Shortly after I posted my comment… I got an offer from a member of your “Team.” So it’s still active, and I got spammed for complaining about people getting spammed.
Ugh, so I’ve deactivated the whole thing now. Let me know if anybody is still getting Gravatar spam after this.
Well, I guess they’re Phawked now!
sorry….I had to….