Wed 1 Dec 2004
*sigh*
Posted by Joe White under Random News
In attempting to remove some of the over *500* spam comments I received last night, I accidentally deleted a whole slew of good comments.
Will be switching comments off for the time being, then moving to a new method of posting that will not be as susceptible to the spambots..
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December 1st, 2004 at 8:01 pm
Spam comments?
December 2nd, 2004 at 9:39 am
1) yes; there are spambots (machines that have been infected with malware…one guess which platform) that post bogus comments on public blogs with urls to sites they promote. When the attacked site gets indexed by the search engines, it sees the urls and increases the ranking of the linked-to site.
2) apparently I haven’t turned off comments, just anonymous comments…we’ll see if that is enough.