Comment Spam

Game|Housekeeping: A Note On Comment SpamWe understand that our comment spam filters have been beefed up, in order to keep out all the junk comments and garbage that we've been having as we get more popular and thus more enticing to griefers. Problem is, as these things often do, the spam filters are now also keeping out a lot of legitimate comments. We're working to fix the problem. In the meantime, if you've found any ways to keep your comments from being marked as spam, please comment below and hope that they do not get marked as spam. Thank you! Link - Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:53:39 GMT - Feed (1 subs) Sent using SendMeRss.com. Visit here to unsubscribe from Game | Life. Recommended Feeds/Actions Subscribe MSNBC.com: Security

If you follow Harry Potter at all, you know that Voldemort is "He Who Must Not Be Named". He is the evil villain, and speaking about him gives him power. That is how I feel about comment spam.There are many in SEO who see this as a viable way to increase links to your site, and some very popular SEO blogs promote it, as well. This is upsetting for me on many counts - both my SEO and my blogging sensibilities are offended by this.Does comment spam really help your search engine ranking?While Google uses the nofollow tags, Yahoo! and MSN do not. This means that these are considered to be viable links in these search engines, and while these two search engines are not near as popular as Google, and sometimes the butt of jokes by people "in-the-know", some still use them, especially people who are not "in-the-know". And many blogs do not utilize the nofollow tags in their comments, and more so now since the U Comment - I Follow movement gains the support of bloggers. This, meant to promote

Official Google Blog: Preventing comment spamComment Spam on Six ApartSo I am reading about comment spam and blog spam and what not, because I have been leaving comments on other blogs, and I have been, in some cases, leaving links to to my site.But I wanted to know if what I was doing was considered comment spam. But I don't think it is because I only comment on stuff that interests me and the comment is appropriate to the post I am commenting on. So I figure it is okay. I have actually gotten into a few dialogues with some bloggers, which has been funny and sometimes enlightening.

Well, at least for this blog. I recently mentioned how this blog was getting in excess of 1000 pieces of comment spam a day. Thankfully that appears to have dropped off over the past 4 or 5 days and O’Flaherty is now getting between 300 and 400 comment spam’s a day. Did the spammers take Easter off? Have they lost interest in this blog considering none of their spam’s get through? Is it simply a lull in the storm? Has anybody else noticed a decline in comment spam levels recently? blogging, blogs, comment spam, internet, spam This post originally appeared on Paul OFlahertys Technology Blog. © 2007 Paul OFlaherty Link to original post: Comment Spam numbers drop | 2 comments

While reading Rosalind Gardners Net Profits Today I came across an interesting article on how to stop blog comment spam.She has some very good information on the subject.Take a look for yourself,and see.Read More

Lately I have been getting comment spams… really bad ones too… as in the XXX variety. So I went looking and found the plugin: Peter’s Custom Anti-Spam It’s a fun & customizable anti-spam plugin… you get to choose your own words! The uniqueness of my plugin is two-fold: 1) It does not discrimate against users who have cookies disabled. 2) You can pick your own fun random words to display. Let me know if you want to use it & need a little help!

Just an FYI for my commenters... I have added a plugin that forces you to enter in chracters in order to comment. I tried to avoid this, but I have been getting hit by comment spam pretty hard lately so I am going to try this out. Let me know if there are any issues.

Lately i’ve been getting great comment spam. I gotta say that this one wins. Name: rape | IP: 201.26.1.155 rape Pros and cons of rape. This really makes my day to think that some fuck made a spambot that makes comments in my blog about the “Pros and cons of rape.” Not ...

Lately i've been getting great comment spam. I gotta say that this one wins. Name: rape | IP: 201.26.1.155 rape Pros and cons of rape. This really makes my day to think that some fuck made a spambot that makes comments in my blog about the "Pros and cons of rape." ...