Wednesday (02/22/06)
I got seriously annoyed at some spammers. 9:50 pm
You may have noticed this past week that there’s been a slight change in the way discussions work on here. If you have never had a comment approved on here before, then I will have to moderate it. If I’ve approved a comment of yours in the past, then it’ll go through automatically. So basically, not much is changing for any regulars. But for you spammers…back off.
I’ve actually been seriously considering sending an email to the offending sites telling them how much I appreciate their marketing techniques. Hey, I’ve got an idea–why don’t I send out a mass email?
Or maybe another idea would be to create a blacklist of sites that are known to send out comment spam, post it online, then have people sign the list saying they will boycott any sites on the list until the spam stops. I wonder how many of the site owners know of the spam, or if they just hired a marketing team that is doing this without their client’s knowledge? Either way, I’ll bet that would get their attention. However, the downside of this would be that some evil people would likely start sending out spam as their competitors to get them blacklisted…
Everybody has been focusing on trying to keep spammers away, but whatever happened to actually stopping it?
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I thought Akismet would help you to filter them off? I haven’t get any comment spam ever since I enabled it.
It probably does…I haven’t used it. There’s just something about sending peoples’ comments through a third party that I don’t like. Maybe I’ll try using it out of desperation though..
Desperation……….
although I use akismet I have activated a comment awaiting moderation option because spammers nowadays do some tricks to leave nice comments that don’t look like spam comments while the URLs are still spam sites thoughh, they just want the webmasters to approved them so that they can spam freely so if i get this i mark it as spam and akismet will just add it as spam
@Anonymuis: Yeah, I started getting those too, which is really what threw me over the edge.
Askimet catches most of the spam that’s automatically submitted. For people who do it by hand, there is really no way you can stop them. If they don’t use particular URL’s and are just putting in random comments, you’ve got nothing.
The whole comment thing seems kind of lame though. You try to keep an open discussion and some perk comes by and goes “asdf ohf oadsfj”.
Is there any way to just block urls? Then wait to aprove that comment?
What I would like to do is send 10 autoresponder emails to every spam comment i get–something like a page long each . Is this possible?
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