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Monday, 17 November 2003

Spam Spam Spam

by mike @ 23:55. Filed under

Geek Stuff

I read with interest Mark Pilgrim’s highly pessimistic, but well thought out, article on comment spam yesterday. Whilst I find that I cannot disagree in principal with most things Mark says, I somehow feel that things aren’t quite at the throwing in the towel stage. On the WordPress developer list we have been discussing tactics which Mark hasn’t touched upon but which could be employed to negate the value (increased page rank) of comment spamming. Dougal sums things up nicely in the article he wrote over at the WordPress Development Blog

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4 Responses to “Spam Spam Spam”

Elliot Lee Says:
November 19th, 2003 at 02:28
How about the methods Yahoo! and other large websites use to stop automated registration? GoDaddy.com uses a similar method to prevent automated WHOIS queries. An image with a random string or number is created, and the commenter must type in that number to have their comment posted. In theory, only humans can “read” those images.
mike Says:
November 19th, 2003 at 02:51
The problem with that method Elliot, is that it makes the site considerably less accessible (e.g. to people who are visually impaired but can still enjoy the site with screen readers).
TechGnome’s World :: Comment Spamming…. :: General Says:
December 9th, 2003 at 23:47
[…] is. After all, the end of all things is inevitable, right? Maybe, maybe not. While I agree with Mike’s assesment that Mark’s comments seem to indicate a […]
TechGnome's World Says:
December 10th, 2003 at 04:47
Comment Spamming….
I found an interesting article by Mark Pilgrim (found via Mike Little’s Journalized) .
It left me wondering why I even do this. After all, the end of all things is inevitable, right? Maybe, maybe not.
While I agree with Mike’s assesment that …

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