Stop Spam Better
Got enough testers for now. Thanks! I’m looking for a few people who do (or used to) get a lot of comment spam who are willing to turn off all of their other spam prevention methods and try a new...
View ArticleAkismet Stops Spam
Akismet is a new web service that stops comment and trackback spam. (Or at least tries really hard to.) The service is usable immediately as a WordPress plugin and the API could also be adapted for...
View Articledot info
Some days don't you want to just blacklist all of .info? More spam there than anything else except maybe .com or .be, and certainly a higher percentage than any other top-level domain.
View ArticleMySpace Spam
This is an example of a MySpace spam profile, it’s very convincing—see if you can spot the ad. I think this phenomenon is under-reported. They are using data from your profile—location, age, romantic...
View ArticleSpam + Blogs = Trouble
Wired had an article out last month called Spam + Blogs = Trouble where I share some of my perspectives on the whole spam thing. It’s a good article, but I strongly disagree with Anil’s comments at the...
View ArticleWikipedia Spam
Sometimes I’m amazed at how much manual labor the Wikipedia uses. For example, how long can this type of spam protection go on before it becomes overwhelming?
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Spammers Hack Blogs
Blog spammers have sunk to new lows. Nivi, a blog I’m subscribed to, was showing dozens and dozens of entries being updated even though there was no discernible difference. However as I started looking...
View ArticleLove and Hate
One of my favorite funny graphics from the on-hiatus Creating Passionate Users was this one from the entry Be brave or go home. Because on this entry on my blog a few days ago the part of the...
View ArticleTechCrunch’s Social Responsibility
Mike Arrington on TechCrunch did an interesting thing a few days ago, he asked their readers if they should accept advertising from PayPerPost/Izea. Their readers made the right decision and voted that...
View ArticleOpenID and Spam
Magnolia is going to be restricting their signups to only OpenID users: Why? Because 75% of new accounts being created there lately have been created by spammers using automated tools. Spammers took...
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