Not exact matches
In that time, I
made 206 posts, received about 900 real
comments, and nearly 70,000
spam comments.
Please leave one
comment on this BLOG when you completed the steps with your email address in this format — «name at host dot com» to avoid
spam, but
make our ability to contact / find you easier!
Wow, clearly baby center isn't filtering out all of the
spam comments from folks trying to
make a quick buck!
Weirdly, these two examples link to sites that don't seem to exist, so I'm not quite sure what their purpose is — normally,
spam comments try to send traffic to fake blogs («splogs») that
make money through Google Ads or other contextual advertising.
And if
spam forces more and more sites to cut off
comments and trackbacks, we'll lose a significant part of what
makes the blogosphere works, as Wired pointed out last year.
While this policy helps keep the
spam under control, it doesn't exactly
make for live conversation, particularly if I'm off gallivanting around instead of checking my email to see if new
comments have arrived.
Spamming an IP is dickish behaviour (as you may have guessed, I'm not the slightest bit convinced you're separate people), but you clearly know the game well and have
made informative
comments.
I envision a system where once a book has X reviews or X sales or X
comments it gets manually vetted by someone to
make sure its not
spam or trying to game the system and put it in the main book category.
His
spam is
making the
comment section unreadable.
I kind of did a longish
comment with a number of links in it - do
comments like that get screened to
make sure they aren't full of
spam?
Combine this with the
spam comments that I see on at least 25 % or more of articles posted here or accounts
made specifically to approve articles by certain websites.
This is fair
comment — and I am sure I
made a similar
comment yesterday — although the routine and disconcerting disappearance of
comments into some
spam box or other — only to reappear —
makes it difficult to be absolutely sure.
Brandon — you seem to have attracted the attention of the rabid nutters — Rob Honeycutt, Arthur Smith and co, who have been
making a point of
spamming their irrelevant
comments and eulogies all over the hostile reviews to the Holy Book of Mann.
I think denialist
comments should be deleted if they are just
spamming, utter crap, or
make huge claims without a link to published research, or some fact based website.
Welllll... the bots have spread their ignorance to Eli's little hutch, their
comment spam much like a DOS attack in that the thread is
made tedious.
While personally I tend to like the idea of
making anonymous
comment spam illegal, New York's recently proposed bills to ban anonymous online speech, seem like good old - fashioned overreaching to me:
If a
comment is
spam, it gets deleted and never
makes it to the published blog.
It's gold, and it almost
makes me think I should stop deleting
spam comments so the spammers» clients get what they deserve.
On his
Spam Notes blog, Venkat Balasubramani attempts to answer an interesting question inspired by CNN's recent firing of anchor Rich Sanchez for
comments he
made about comedian Jon Stewart.
I would rather put up with a bit of annoying
spam, which can be deleted by a moderator, than limit the ability of legitimate timely
comments that for one reason or another can not be
made other than anonymously.
Prompted by a
comment by Bob Ambrogi, Venkat Balasubramani, who blogs at
Spam Notes and guest - blogs regularly at Eric Goldman's blog, wondered whether the broadening of his legal interests over the past three - and - a-half years of blogging suggest that he should «
make a clean break» from his focused personal blog and start a different one; he weighs the pros and cons in a thoughtful post.
The
comment that Adam
made on the «
spamming» of the network was in the context of the accusations that miners were flooding the Bitcoin memepool with low value transactions.
Akismet verifies your guests»
comments against the Akismet directory to
make sure they aren't posting
spam.