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 [Ebiquity.umbc.edu] Big spike in blog comment spam?: While I’ve not been paying close attention, I think in the past it was typical for spam comments to be submitted to relatively new posts. Maybe there is new comment spam software out there that uses Google blog search to access RSS feeds of the 100 most recent posts for a given blog.

 [Unknowngenius.com] Dr Dave » Spam Karma 2 Beta: The way in which SK2 work is designed based on the fact that once you start getting a lot of comment spam coming in manual moderation becomes a chore and takes up a lot of your time - therefore if the comment passes through the SK2 checks and ends up with positive karma then it goes live straight away - this behaviour stops people double posting because there comment doesn’t appear and will in heated/busy discussions help the discussion flow much quicker - unless you sit infront of you computer 24/7 approving true comments that are sitting in moderation then you will find that enforcing the moderation as you suggest will stifle the discussion heavily.

[Seclab.cs.rice.edu] Trackback Spam Resources » Blog Archive » State of the art: spam ...: The last six months has seen a massive rise in content theft blogs and spam blogs, and there’s one thing these blogs usually have in common, and that’s the whole “Blog and Ping” thing … Blog and Ping is a online marketing term applied to a system that utilizes blogs and pings (short for pingback) to deliver content and/ or sites for indexing in search engines with the ultimate aim of profit.

[Rendelmann.info] torsten's .NET blog - Comment and Trackback Spam: Tuesday, 25 April 2006. Comment and Trackback Spam. Yes: they bit me. ... Like RSS Bandit? Make a donation to help support its development and maintenance. ...

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