Comments on: Seven quick tips for a spam-free blog

By: gigel

gigel — Thu, 09 Sep 2004 05:00:08 +0000

When I use the term ‘repugnant’ I do so in my own opinion: I do not use non-free
software on machines I control. This licence is non-free, and masquerading it as free
is offensive. I have contributed lots to the Free Software community myself, and I
would be completely outraged if any of my contributions were being shipped in a
non-free product. Contributions are contributions to public software, not private
profits.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 24 Jan 2004 10:35:54 +0000

Is there any new blog programs out there that can combat spam as I am up against spam all the time. I have a website that gives out a free guest book to websites and I go to check the websites of people who sign up for our guest books and the guest books are just full of spam, which is where this type of spam originated. To me it isn’t so much the spam, it is the way it is spammed. If someone visits your website then leaves a message and tells about themselves with reference to their website is ok by me, but if they just type ad words that have no coherence to them, that bothers me, no class. If there was a code I could use to prevent spam in my guest books, I would surely like to know about it. I will check back and see what is said here later on. I find this very interesting.
Take care and bless you
Steve

By: skinny arms

skinny arms — Sat, 24 Jan 2004 08:08:48 +0000

wonderful site, as some sort of a blog developer, i found it absolutly perfect as this was exactly what i was looking for!

By: Markie

Markie — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 23:29:33 +0000

I spent really a lot of time developing similar thing but now I see it was time lost. My anti spam scripts don’t work as expected and this is becoming pain in my …

By: Hot Topic

Hot Topic — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 13:25:46 +0000

Hi. You guys make all great points here. The spam is not going to stop. You just have to create smarter scripts. 🙂 There are a few small steps you can do to make your scripts smarter from the average bot. You can add a referer check to to your script. If the script is accessed anywhere but your site’s URL, then you exit. 🙂

By: Junkeater

Junkeater — Sun, 04 Jan 2004 21:18:24 +0000

Great tips. http://www.junkeater.com is offering an additional service that is based on picture recognition and can be integrated into existing weblogs fairly easily. Might be worth mentioning.

By: Jack

Jack — Sun, 04 Jan 2004 04:40:32 +0000

I do not think so.

By: chungdung

chungdung — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 22:33:48 +0000

Chuc mung nam moi!

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 30 Dec 2003 05:46:15 +0000

Great idea, I mean spamming blogs doesn’t drive the right traffic, why do it? I’m a webmaster by myself, but spamming blogs with mass-blog-spammer-software (yes, these evil pieces of software are outthere) is the worst thing after spam – I’ll never do it & mostly the people doing it have “bought” the software from scammers…
Anyway, they will not last with the blacklists outthere I hope – I wish you all a nice start into the year 2004, god bless you & your families, Dave from Germany.

By: Christoph C. Cemper

Christoph C. Cemper — Fri, 26 Dec 2003 07:40:49 +0000

Great ideas, great tips, a lot of hacking of course…
Personally I prefer MT-Blacklist for my blog which gives me an all-in-one solution against all the stuff people try to advertise on my blog for…
merry xmas, christoph