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Spam Rapidly Increasing In Weblog Comments
dsurber writes "BBC News has a nice article discussing 'flyblogging', the phenomenon of spammers leaving advertising-related posts on personal weblogs. The writer comments: 'None of the other blogs I contribute to or run has been affected yet, but I can only assume it is a matter of time before the spammers move in, as they did first with UseNet and then with e-mail. It depresses me to think that any open medium can be so easily undermined by people with no scruples, no sense of responsibility and no idea of the damage they are doing.'" It seems a little surreal that people are having to develop anti-spam weblog tools.
So why not try the best anti-spam tool on the market and wave goodbye to those pesky spams?!
Perhaps these 'web logs' could come up with a kind of 'moderation system' to let users filter out the crap.
Although the term flyblog has been used already to mean either blogging about flying, or blogging while flying, I would like to claim it for the practice of posting spam comments to people's blogs like this: I have just been comprehensively flyblogged
I like I have been splamogged much better. Just rolls off the tongue.
*ducks*
Have you read the comments most people post on these things, anyway? They're even more asinine than the weblogs themselves...
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Yeah I mean who reads these comments anyway? Can you imagine a site full of these asinine people writting about stuff they don't even know the first thing about?
What a stupid stupid idea
-- taking over the world, we are.
How dare you post this here to give all of the spammers an idea you insensitive clod! Haven't you ever heard of security through obscurity? You just as bad as that box-cutter college kid and those dangerous white hats! -m
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