4 Responses for "Comment SPAM Strategies"

1. JesterXL September 28th, 2004 at 2:40 pm 1

   Before I upgraded to MoveableType 3, Jay Allen’s MT-Blacklist worked great. It was a way to fight entropy. The more blog spam you blacklisted, the less you received. It became the eventual “rabbit jumps halfway to the wall, and keeps dividing his strides, in effect never actually reaching said wall”. But least a millimeter of spam a month was better than the 100 a day I delete.

   …someone frikin’ pay Jay to quit his job and upgrade his phat plugin, thanks!

2. Daniel September 28th, 2004 at 6:33 pm 2

   Hello;

   I have recently got quite a lot spam comments in my blog and I decided to write a complain to the ISP of the spammer.

   It helped but two days after that I got mail from the same spammer but form a different IP. So I wrote another mail to their new ISP and for now it seems to work.

   Check this site to identify the ISP anti-abuse mail address based on given IP.
   http://www.spamcop.net/bl.shtml

   regards;
   Dan

3. Roger Benningfield September 28th, 2004 at 11:31 pm 3

   (1) Since the “comments” area for a JournURL blog is actually a thread in a forum and not an inline list of posts, the incentive to spam decreases… there’s not nearly as much Google juice at stake.

   (2) By default, the owner of a JournURL community is responsible for policing the spam for all the blogs and users she hosts. But she can also “promote from within”, building a small staff of spam killers with the power to zap junk on any blog within the community.

   (3) Required registration can be toggled on at any time… which doesn’t necessarily *stop* spam, but makes it much easier to clean up.

   (4) Moderation can be toggled on at any time.

   (5) Per-user throttles can be activated.

   (6) The ability to post HTML can be restricted for individual user types.

   (7) Unregistered users (including search engines) can be served content that has been stripped of links, making the exercise of spam pointless. (Outside of annoyance value, which can’t be underestimated as a motivation for some people.)

4. Grek000 December 9th, 2004 at 2:53 pm 4

   I think so.