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June 04, 2006
Experiment and comfort
When it becomes part of your daily routine to delete the 50+ posts' worth of comment spam on a blog you're updating once every other week or so, there's a problem that needs to be solved.
There's a throwaway post, though, that seems to have been a magnet for the comment-spam - a link to an old Zits comic about Jeremy having too many blogs and the internet having too much space. (Which it does.) I have relegated that post to the aether. I'm wondering that that will do to our friendly neighborhood bots.
Everything I said about trackback spam before applies to comment spam now.
Oh, and I must also say, while doing this, seeing that no less a visionary than Mark Cuban is annoyed by this dark side of the 'net is more than a little bit of comfort. And I'm with him. I'd really like to know how all of this works. Many of the links in comment/trackback spam point to exactly those type of "splogs" that are engines for this "click fraud". There has been murmurings about all thos going on, but no good investigative reporting - and I'd like to know where this money is filtering from, and too.
(Whether or not I threw in that last comment to gain some cheap trackback off of Blog Maverick is left as an exercise to the reader, and an exercise that drips with irony if you think about it too hard.)
UPDATE: 33 hours, 71 spam comments. That SO did not work.
The next step might be to turn off comments totally. I might just do that.
Posted by Chuck at June 4, 2006 08:56 AM
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