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The Secret Recipe of Comment Spam Comments « Lorelle on WordPress — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 19:51:00 +0000

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By: Peter Chen

Peter Chen — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 10:40:09 +0000

Blogger is one of the blogging platform that got together to help fight comment spam. They have added the NOFOLLOW attribute to the comments. The other blogging platforms are TypePad, MovableType, LiveJournal), and WordPress. In the case of Blogger, some bloggers are removing the NOFOLLOW attribute because they want the links in the comments to be FOLLOWED. This post shows how: Improve link popularity and PageRank by deleting NOFOLLOW attribute for comments.

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Can We Work Together To Stop Comment Spam? « Lorelle on WordPress — Fri, 18 May 2007 05:41:02 +0000

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By: Longrider

Longrider — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 22:20:02 +0000

For a while the combination of Bad Behaviour and Akismet kept the SPAM at bay. Recently there has been a surge of SPAM getting past Bad Behaviour. Since installing challenge questions on the contact form and the comments it has stopped again… For the moment.

The challenge question is a little more user friendly than turing numbers or CATCHPAs

By: adam

adam — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:51:01 +0000

@engtech-

a fair amount of the spam i see comes with a web address that’s legitimate (often *.edu sites). i’m not sure how akismet would distinguish.

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Comment Spam - Will OpenID be a ray of our hope? » Florchakh Dot Com — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:54:56 +0000

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By: engtech

engtech — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:19:25 +0000

I’d like to see an open API for automated reporting of spam so that spam fighting tools can report back to the hosting site that they’re hosting spam.

That would take care of the spam that’s masking behind free webspace providers.

IE: Akismet sees spam as viagra.blogspot.com, sends an API message to blogger to let them know about the site for investigation. They look into it and nuke it.

Then spammers would have to use their own domains, which would be even easier to blacklist.

By: that girl again

that girl again — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:14:45 +0000

When I started using wordpress, I got significantly less spam than my friends who were using MT. Now, my friends who are using textpattern get significantly less than me. And there’s no spam on my Habari test install. Yet. It’s naive to pretend that there’s nothing to be gained short-term by using a less popular blogging tool, but as soon as the rest of the blogosphere catches up with you the spammers will too.

Adam is right about livejournal, though. I haven’t had a spam comment there in three years, and I allow anonymous comments (though IPs are logged).

By: Kate

Kate — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 23:41:43 +0000

Not only is blog comment spam annoying for the blog creaters but the users as well. I really don’t think that spammers target one program specifically. They post what they can, where they can, it all depends on what can get through. If your program has preventative steps, they are less likly to get hit.