Spam Rapidly Increasing In Weblog Comments

dsurber writes "BBC News has a nice article discussing 'flyblogging', the phenomenon of spammers leaving advertising-related posts on personal weblogs. The writer comments: 'None of the other blogs I contribute to or run has been affected yet, but I can only assume it is a matter of time before the spammers move in, as they did first with UseNet and then with e-mail. It depresses me to think that any open medium can be so easily undermined by people with no scruples, no sense of responsibility and no idea of the damage they are doing.'" It seems a little surreal that people are having to develop anti-spam weblog tools.

This is why...

[Sanity]

...you need Locutus [locut.us]! Its absolutely FREE and works with Outlook, Outlook Express, and Eudora!

So why not try the best anti-spam tool on the market and wave goodbye to those pesky spams?!

Mod

[CGP314]

Perhaps these 'web logs' could come up with a kind of 'moderation system' to let users filter out the crap.

Blog-B-Gone

[Anonymous Coward]

My company produces tiny wireless software that prevents users from posting advertisements to your blogs and discussion forums. You can buy it here for a low introductory price of only $19.95 http://www.blog-b-gone.com [localhost] :-)

Awkward Alternative.

[CGP314]

Although the term flyblog has been used already to mean either blogging about flying, or blogging while flying, I would like to claim it for the practice of posting spam comments to people's blogs like this: I have just been comprehensively flyblogged

I like I have been splamogged much better. Just rolls off the tongue.

Don't be rediculous

[Sanity]

That would lead to censorship by majority and the inability to say anything that contradicts the weblog's collective "groupthink" without getting moderated down.

*ducks*

No Spam Blogging Here...

[bluethundr]

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...sigh. Okay, I keed I keed and I know I'm going to get modded down for posting some actual spam I found in my inbox. But I have actually heard of this problem [lyricsdir.com] before. I wish it would just go away along with the majority of our obsessivly consumerist culture. But thank god, though I have seen some folks accuse Slashdot of being in bed with some of the product manufacturers it features in its stories (an accusation I don't actually subscribe to), I have NEVER seen blatant spam (that wasn't a blatant troll [slashdot.org]) mixed in with the blogging on this site. Could it be that the lameness filters are admirably effective in blocking this sort of content? Or have, I wonder, the spammers not figured out how to interface with Slashdot as of yet? Repeat: yet?

Re:Uh, try disabling comments altogether...

[aliens]

Have you read the comments most people post on these things, anyway? They're even more asinine than the weblogs themselves...

Yeah I mean who reads these comments anyway? Can you imagine a site full of these asinine people writting about stuff they don't even know the first thing about?

What a stupid stupid idea ::)

Re:Don't be rediculous

[quacking duck]

You got modded up. Conformist!

Admit it ...

[obsidianpreacher]

you tried to click on the "New Blonde" picture at the beginning of the article, didn't you?

porn spam thoughts

[AssFace]

I'm pretty sure that someone is spamming my brain with thoughts and dreams of porn like material. That said, I'm not too bothered by it.

Re:Awkward Alternative.

[Anonymous Coward]

how about "splogged"?

Re:Wikis too?

[lacrymology.com]

How dare you post this here to give all of the spammers an idea you insensitive clod! Haven't you ever heard of security through obscurity? You just as bad as that box-cutter college kid and those dangerous white hats! -m

Re:Mod

[orthogonal]

Oh please, it doesn't even work on Slashdot half the time. Intelligent posts get modded down all the time because they're not the majority opinion.

Mod heretical parent down!!

Baa! Baa!

Re:Mod

[sharkey]

Trouble is, the advertizers will just rebrand themselves as "editors", and forge ahead anyway.

Re:I've Noticed

[Anonymous Coward]

The apple does not fall far from the tree.

Ditch the bitch.

Re:Don't be rediculous

[sunwukong]

Perhaps you need to spread the word more -- use mass mailings, tying your website to popular lifestyle products, etc.

Easy fix for spam.

[Psiren]

It's easy enough to stop spam. Just shoot anyone that needs a mortgage, has a small dick or erection problem, or wants to increase their web traffic. No more buyers, no more problem. Unfortunately one of those applies to me, but I'm not saying which... ;-)

Re:You, on the other hand, are the regular type.

[Dr. Smeegee]

Actually the turing test would be a computer trying to convince a man that it is a woman.

So what? Blogs are write only

[arrowman]

Why would this be a problem? Nobody even reads a blog, do they?