If you are using Show Top Commentators plugin for more than a year and haven’t updated it yet, then you are probably using version 1.05 which has a bug – it allows people to replace the link of any top commenter in the list.
All they have to do is to put exactly the same “name” as one of the top commenters, and then put their own “link”, this would change the link of the “top commenter” to the new “spam” link. This would last until the real author comments again or the admin of the blog removes the spam comment. So the plugin somehow was allowing the last commenter with the same name to replace the URL displayed in the list for that particular commenter.
So if you are using the old version, do update it to version 1.06 which solves this problem.
Note: Thanks to Andrei for informing me about this bug, I was too using the old version and had two of my commenters complain about their comments being hijacked. I have updated my plugin.
Thank you for pointing this out. I have a blog with a top commentators plugin, and have never really noticed before. When it does start to get popular I guess this cause a problem. I’ll update it ASAP!
Probably wasn’t a good idea, as now everyone’s going to do it right?
really? i never know about that. So, i guess. Its time to upgrade.
I think I shall take advantage of this :-P
Thanks for pointing it out, I did not pay attention first, after giving a thought I have checked my comments and found someone actually tried to hijack my comments, which I have informed to the blog owner.
That’s good that you’re noticed! It annoys me when things like that happen, because these people wouldn’t be contributing to the blogs at all!
Thanks for the mention! Looking forward to some more great posts to comment on in the future.
I have updated top commentators plugin
we should learn something and take something from this post. It useful.
i guess, i should try to put at my site soon.
this is the first time i’ve heard of this bug. i wonder how often it is being abused…
Thanks for pointing it out, I did not pay attention first, after giving a thought I have checked my comments and found someone actually tried to hijack my comments, which I have informed to the blog owner.
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