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Blog comment spam

I just deleted probably the 200th comment spam I've received on my blog here. And I had finally reached the boiling point.

So I looked up the latest spammer's domain at whois.sc, picked up the phone, and gave him a piece of my mind.

He was calm, but confused, and didn't know what I was talking about. Apparently (and I believe the fella), he had hired someone to do 'marketing' for him. I explained to him why the practice of blog spamming is evil and also explained to him why it would suck for me to 'just turn 'em off' (the comments).

I suppose it's pretty slow-going, teaching one spamming company at a time. But maybe I've done some good.

(And yes, I know that, especially with the coming of MT 3.0, there are various options involving queued comments, registration, etc. But I shouldn't have to constantly stay one step ahead of the spammers just to allow others to participate in the community here.)

- Blathered by Adam on Monday, May 3, 2004 at 16:16 [ Permalink | Trackback ]
- Filed under Geekery
- Commented on by 6 folks so far. Scroll down and see for yourself (and join in the conversation!)

Comment from Dante [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	Thanks for the call. We have taken care of the problem. - Posted on Monday, May 3, 2004 at 16:25 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from Raphael [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	whois.sc is a neat site. I was looking for a nice website to lookup domain registration details and this one seems very nice. - Posted on Tuesday, May 4, 2004 at 18:35 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from Lauren [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	Have you considered wordpress.org? It has comments moderation. I got so sick of being spammed that I converted from b2 to wordpress. - Posted on Wednesday, May 5, 2004 at 17:50 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from member Adam San Francisco [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	Yep, I’ve definitely considered it, but in the end, I decided that it’d take too much work to do a good conversion of this current blog over to WP… templates, plugins, and all. For my upcoming blogs, I AM considering WP… along with MT 3.0, and ExpressionEngine. With that said, though, I don’t really like the idea of moderated comments all that much. Not that I get a real flood of fascinating comments currently, but I’m loathe to put a delay into my blog’s community feedback system, especially when I’m traveling! Anyway, Lauren, thanks for the note - Posted on Wednesday, May 5, 2004 at 18:13 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from depression http://www.depression-care.org/ [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	- Posted on Monday, December 11, 2006 at 14:00 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from emma Geramny [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	- Posted on Thursday, March 22, 2007 at 1:46 [ Permalink to this comment ]

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Comment from Dante [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	Thanks for the call. We have taken care of the problem. - Posted on Monday, May 3, 2004 at 16:25 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from Raphael [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	whois.sc is a neat site. I was looking for a nice website to lookup domain registration details and this one seems very nice. - Posted on Tuesday, May 4, 2004 at 18:35 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from Lauren [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	Have you considered wordpress.org? It has comments moderation. I got so sick of being spammed that I converted from b2 to wordpress. - Posted on Wednesday, May 5, 2004 at 17:50 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from member Adam San Francisco [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	Yep, I’ve definitely considered it, but in the end, I decided that it’d take too much work to do a good conversion of this current blog over to WP… templates, plugins, and all. For my upcoming blogs, I AM considering WP… along with MT 3.0, and ExpressionEngine. With that said, though, I don’t really like the idea of moderated comments all that much. Not that I get a real flood of fascinating comments currently, but I’m loathe to put a delay into my blog’s community feedback system, especially when I’m traveling! Anyway, Lauren, thanks for the note - Posted on Wednesday, May 5, 2004 at 18:13 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from depression http://www.depression-care.org/ [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	- Posted on Monday, December 11, 2006 at 14:00 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from emma Geramny [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	- Posted on Thursday, March 22, 2007 at 1:46 [ Permalink to this comment ]