[Hidden-tech] Spammers piggy backing on my website

[Tom Novelli]

There are no comment forms on the websites I run: too prone to
grandstanding and nonsense, in addition to spam.  The primary purpose
of comments is to build buzz, and  Twitter, Facebook, Google +1, etc,
are better ways to accomplish that, without polluting your own site.
(Disqus, I don't know... I recently saw spam comments lingering for
weeks in a thread I participated in.)

I've heard reports of humans being paid to post comment spam in China,
Nigeria, etc.  I've seen UNPAID INTERNS doing it LOCALLY, and I take
every opportunity I get to speak out against the practice.  Some of
their employers are probably here in Hidden-Tech (and you should be
ashamed of yourselves for making cynics out of cheerful 20-year-olds).
 Anyone know if UMass ever cracked down on this?

-Tom

On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Shel Horowitz <shel at frugalfun.com> wrote:
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> At 8:33 AM -0400 10/29/11, B. Kimo Lee wrote:
>>Btw, if you're not already receiving comment spam on your blog, when
>>you do, I'd suggest getting an Akismet account and installing the
>>Akismet Wordpress plugin. I use the Akismet service on several
>>Joomla client sites I maintain and it cut comment spam down to zero.
>
> I used to use Akismet and still do on some of my smaller sites--but
> with Akismet, you still have to go in manually and deal with
> releasing the false positives, flushing the spam, and unaccepting the
> ones it let through.. Now I use Disqus or CommentLuv (different
> sites), and I also set all my blog sites to refuse comments on posts
> older than two weeks. I don't think any spam has gotten into my blog
> with either of those systems, once my VA enabled the spam protection
> in CommentLuv.
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