Comments on: Looking Past Splogspot http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2006/05/03/looking-past-splogspot/ Content Theft, Plagiarism, Copyright Infringement Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:14:35 +0000 hourly 1 By: Matt Fausey http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2006/05/03/looking-past-splogspot/comment-page-1/#comment-3305 Matt Fausey Wed, 24 May 2006 02:16:36 +0000 http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/?p=233#comment-3305 I have 2 comments. The first is that I'm grateful for blogs that do accept comments it takes a lot of work to filter out the SPAM. I've recently had to stop accepting comments on my blog (which is a technical blog for my software company) because of it. The spammers are also attacking any/all HTML forms out there. I have online documentation pages with feedback forms and I regularly get robot SPAM on those. Anyway, my 2nd comment is that I think the blog sites can and should get more sophisticated in blocking SPAM. For example, a lot of the web spam out there is for the purpose of generating Google AdSense revenue. I've implemented a "Reverse Google ID Lookup" scheme where the page linked to is automatically fetched, the Google ID's (if any) are parsed out, and if one matches a banned Google ID, the submission is automatically rejected. It works great. Wikipedia can ban by IP address, and I do that too -- but I don't make it a permanent ban. I also ban submissions with links to sites containing things like casalamedia (sp? can't recall if it's "casalemedia") and other low-quality ad networks with pop-unders because 99% of those are crappy SPAM sites... I have 2 comments. The first is that I’m grateful for blogs that do accept comments it takes a lot of work to filter out the SPAM. I’ve recently had to stop accepting comments on my blog (which is a technical blog for my software company) because of it. The spammers are also attacking any/all HTML forms out there. I have online documentation pages with feedback forms and I regularly get robot SPAM on those.

Anyway, my 2nd comment is that I think the blog sites can and should get more sophisticated in blocking SPAM. For example, a lot of the web spam out there is for the purpose of generating Google AdSense revenue. I’ve implemented a “Reverse Google ID Lookup” scheme where the page linked to is automatically fetched, the Google ID’s (if any) are parsed out, and if one matches a banned Google ID, the submission is automatically rejected. It works great. Wikipedia can ban by IP address, and I do that too — but I don’t make it a permanent ban. I also ban submissions with links to sites containing things like casalamedia (sp? can’t recall if it’s “casalemedia”) and other low-quality ad networks with pop-unders because 99% of those are crappy SPAM sites…

]]> By: Matt Fausey http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2006/05/03/looking-past-splogspot/comment-page-1/#comment-122562 Matt Fausey Wed, 24 May 2006 02:16:36 +0000 http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/?p=233#comment-122562 I have 2 comments. The first is that I'm grateful for blogs that do accept comments it takes a lot of work to filter out the SPAM. I've recently had to stop accepting comments on my blog (which is a technical blog for my software company) because of it. The spammers are also attacking any/all HTML forms out there. I have online documentation pages with feedback forms and I regularly get robot SPAM on those.<br><br>Anyway, my 2nd comment is that I think the blog sites can and should get more sophisticated in blocking SPAM. For example, a lot of the web spam out there is for the purpose of generating Google AdSense revenue. I've implemented a "Reverse Google ID Lookup" scheme where the page linked to is automatically fetched, the Google ID's (if any) are parsed out, and if one matches a banned Google ID, the submission is automatically rejected. It works great. Wikipedia can ban by IP address, and I do that too -- but I don't make it a permanent ban. I also ban submissions with links to sites containing things like casalamedia (sp? can't recall if it's "casalemedia") and other low-quality ad networks with pop-unders because 99% of those are crappy SPAM sites... I have 2 comments. The first is that I’m grateful for blogs that do accept comments it takes a lot of work to filter out the SPAM. I’ve recently had to stop accepting comments on my blog (which is a technical blog for my software company) because of it. The spammers are also attacking any/all HTML forms out there. I have online documentation pages with feedback forms and I regularly get robot SPAM on those.

Anyway, my 2nd comment is that I think the blog sites can and should get more sophisticated in blocking SPAM. For example, a lot of the web spam out there is for the purpose of generating Google AdSense revenue. I’ve implemented a “Reverse Google ID Lookup” scheme where the page linked to is automatically fetched, the Google ID’s (if any) are parsed out, and if one matches a banned Google ID, the submission is automatically rejected. It works great. Wikipedia can ban by IP address, and I do that too — but I don’t make it a permanent ban. I also ban submissions with links to sites containing things like casalamedia (sp? can’t recall if it’s “casalemedia”) and other low-quality ad networks with pop-unders because 99% of those are crappy SPAM sites…

]]> By: Thought Mesh http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2006/05/03/looking-past-splogspot/comment-page-1/#comment-1491 Thought Mesh Thu, 04 May 2006 19:05:21 +0000 http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/?p=233#comment-1491 <strong>Junk futures...</strong> It looks like "other people are noticing":http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/?p=233 something I "posted about a few days ago":http://blog.thought-mesh.net/archives/2006/04/evolving_online_social_c.php (via "Winds of Change":http://www.windsofchange.n... Junk futures…

It looks like “other people are noticing”:http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/?p=233 something I “posted about a few days ago”:http://blog.thought-mesh.net/archives/2006/04/evolving_online_social_c.php (via “Winds of Change”:http://www.windsofchange.n...

]]> By: Thought Mesh http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2006/05/03/looking-past-splogspot/comment-page-1/#comment-122561 Thought Mesh Thu, 04 May 2006 19:05:21 +0000 http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/?p=233#comment-122561 <strong>Junk futures...</strong><br><br>It looks like "other people are noticing":http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/?p=233 something I "posted about a few days ago":http://blog.thought-mesh.net/archives/2006/04/evolving_online_social_c.php (via "Winds of Change":http://www.windsofchange.n... Junk futures…

It looks like “other people are noticing”:http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/?p=233 something I “posted about a few days ago”:http://blog.thought-mesh.net/archives/2006/04/evolving_online_social_c.php (via “Winds of Change”:http://www.windsofchange.n...

]]> By: Winds of Change.NET http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2006/05/03/looking-past-splogspot/comment-page-1/#comment-1475 Winds of Change.NET Thu, 04 May 2006 00:15:23 +0000 http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/?p=233#comment-1475 <strong>Spam-Blogs + Ill-Prepared Hosts = Gated Future...</strong> Plagiarism Today has an excellent article about spamblogs, the problems faced by Google/Blogspot, its spread to MSN Spaces, and why this is likely to be a trend: "The bitter truth is that the Web is...... Spam-Blogs + Ill-Prepared Hosts = Gated Future…

Plagiarism Today has an excellent article about spamblogs, the problems faced by Google/Blogspot, its spread to MSN Spaces, and why this is likely to be a trend: “The bitter truth is that the Web is……

]]> By: Winds of Change.NET http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2006/05/03/looking-past-splogspot/comment-page-1/#comment-122560 Winds of Change.NET Thu, 04 May 2006 00:15:23 +0000 http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/?p=233#comment-122560 <strong>Spam-Blogs + Ill-Prepared Hosts = Gated Future...</strong><br><br>Plagiarism Today has an excellent article about spamblogs, the problems faced by Google/Blogspot, its spread to MSN Spaces, and why this is likely to be a trend: "The bitter truth is that the Web is...... Spam-Blogs + Ill-Prepared Hosts = Gated Future…

Plagiarism Today has an excellent article about spamblogs, the problems faced by Google/Blogspot, its spread to MSN Spaces, and why this is likely to be a trend: “The bitter truth is that the Web is……

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