Jul
31
2006
Spammers are even stupider than I imagined!
Posted by Mark Drew at 1:00 PM
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Mark Drew wrote on 09/22/08 11:12 AM
Thats true, but then again, I would hate to make it harder for people to post on my blog. I dont particularly like the captcha anyway, yet alone then waiting for post moderation. At least they arent being rude yet.
Lucas Sherwood wrote on 09/22/08 11:12 AM
We have started to get the same sort of thing. They even sound like a slightly on-topic comment till you look at the URL, http/bla bla blah/sitemap.htmlLike who has a homepage called sitemap.html?
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Tariq Ahmed wrote on 09/22/08 11:12 AM
Hey MArk. Ya I feel your pain. At the same time I've been finding blog spammers somewhat fascinating. :)Like I had a wide open ability to post on my blog..and one blogger discovered, and I'd deactivate them (takes me literally 2 seconds to nuke 100 spams...it's no big deal). But the guy kept it up. I was putting in logic to catch for the certain things he was trying to post for...that slowed him down for about 15mins and then he'd figured out the workaround.
So I figure these guys get paid per post or something..? But what I found effective is not to show the comment right away - I implemented a comment review mechanism. So even though I'm not using the captcha thingy, it seems to have worked. Blog spammers apparently want instant gratification. And if none of their posts will ever get approved, they know its not worth their while.