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Blog comment spam should be illegal.

by GoodnightSweetRatRace
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When I first set up my website, I could deal with 1 or 2 spammy blog comments. But it seems I'm getting 10-20+ on the regular now and it's so annoying.

It's not deleting them that I despise, it's trying to find the legitimate comments that I want on my blog.

Blog comment spam should be illegal
#blog #comment #illegal #spam
  • Profile picture of the author Tomos Wyn
    Do you use something like askimet to filter the spam comments out?

    I installed it on one of my blogs and it seems to catch the spam pretty well whilst letting the good comments through.
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  • Profile picture of the author rowanman28
    I just switched off comments. Usually the only people I've noticed commenting are spammers, and if they really want to tell me something, they can email me.
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  • Profile picture of the author Nail Yener
    Blog commenting cannot be made illegal because you cannot specify clear lines between a genuine comment and a spam comment. Your definition of spam comment might be different than mine.

    You can always prevent auto-generated spam comments by implementing simple solutions like a captcha or a question. But you will have to deal manually with spam comments that are placed by hand.

    I use growmap anti-spam plugin on my WordPress blogs and on my custom blogs I have a simple math question. They are pretty effective for spam bots.
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  • Profile picture of the author savvybizbuilder
    You can require visitor who want to leave comment to sign up first or can use alternate account like Facebook to comment on your post.
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  • Profile picture of the author BinaryQwest
    Sadly comment spam is getting more and more out of control. Like the suggestions above mention: enable askimet and require users to sign up before posting can cut down on a lot of it. You can also turn of commenting on posts older than a few months old since spammers target higher pagerank posts which will be older posts on a blog. All new posts will be Pagerank N/A until a pagerank update which occurs every few months or so..
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  • Profile picture of the author myeanne
    Yes, I agree. Just be more strict and require the readers to sign-up first.
    This is the only way to lessen these annoying spammers.
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    • Profile picture of the author fluffythewondercat
      I think what the OP is saying is that he wants comment spammers to be held accountable for their actions.

      That seems reasonable.

      Since blogging and commenting are social activities, I believe in social penalties for bad behavior. I will not knowingly assist or buy products from anyone who does blog spamming or has a so-called "SEO service" that consists of sending out spam blasts or creating fake forum profiles.

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      • Profile picture of the author Doot
        Dealing with spam blog comments are a true hassle, I would be glad to see this fade away
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    Fluff brings up the problem in a nutshell. Who do you prosecute? If someone buys a service for SEO and doesn't realize until too late their methods are spammy - do you go after the person who got duped by the service? How do you know if it was a service they used or the individual poster that has committed the offense.

    Prosecuting anyone who spams a blog even though they had no reason to believe that the service they contracted uses spam techniques will have only one repercussion - it will stop people from using SEO services completely and a lot of honest businesses will get trashed. I'd love to see spam services shot down, but in this economy I don't think having honest businesses trashed just because there are scumbags who are scammers in the same field is a very good idea.
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  • Profile picture of the author BloggingPro
    Just make it so that no one can comment on your posts. Problem solved.
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