Spam Rapidly Increasing In Weblog Comments

Posted by simoniker on Monday October 27, 2003 @06:12AM from the generally-defined-as-not-good dept.

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.

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Mod by CGP314 · 2003-10-27 06:15 · Score: 5, Funny

Perhaps these 'web logs' could come up with a kind of 'moderation system' to let users filter out the crap.
Awkward Alternative. by CGP314 · 2003-10-27 06:18 · Score: 5, Funny

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.
Re:Don't be rediculous by quacking+duck · 2003-10-27 06:32 · Score: 5, Funny

You got modded up. Conformist!