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[Weblog Tools Collection] Are You Spamming Comments Inadvertently? « Weblog Tools Collection: I’m realtively new to blogging and I didn’t know that leaving a comment with my link there could be classified as spam because I personally don’t leave spammy comments. But as you bring up this topic Google have also recently addressed it as being a problem and they will be incoporating something into the algorythm to try and detect and penalise spam comments.

[The Wine Rambler] How to deal with comment spam on your blog | The Wine Rambler: Like most blogs, the Wine Rambler is targeted by a spammers that aim to get as many links to their websites distributed across the Internet so that they can make more money by selling more rubbish, overpriced products. Comment forms on blogs are an easy target as they were designed to make it easy for people to leave comments with links attached to them.

[Quick Online Tips Podcast] The Fine Line Between Policing and Moderating Comments: The blogosphere is infected with spammers. In a desperate bid for as many links as they can possibly get back to some dodgy site illegally selling prescription medication, they will comment on any blog in any niche.

[Everything TypePad] Everything TypePad: TypePad AntiSpam: A Better Way to Handle Spam: Years ago, as spammers began to identify blogs as a target for their attacks, our staff would manually craft rules to catch the spam. Over time, spammers grew in number and sophistication and these rules became more complex and unwieldy, requiring manual intervention to deal with each new type. 

[Suggestions Box] suggestions: Invite codes II: Electric Boogaloo: I might have found understanding the entire invite system difficult, and even if I understood it, I'd probably not get up the courage to ask a total stranger for a code. (I feel cheeky even asking people I know for invite codes to other websites.) Thus, I wouldn't be able to post publicly in my own journal, nor post in the communities that were my actual reason for joining (presumably at least, since I assume you'd want to combat spam in comms, too).

[fredericiana] Annoying Browser-Related Blog Spam | fredericiana: The main thing identifying this kind of comment as spam (other than the bogus claim that my blog doesn't render correctly in non-Internet-Explorer browsers) is the URL these .Two examples that passed moderation on the latest “Mozilla and China” blog post (yuk!)

[TechMynd] Stop Comment Spam from WordPress Blog Completely - Security - TechMynd: Use WP-Ban, a very powerful WordPress plugin which helps you easily ban users by IP, IP Range, host name and referrer url from visiting your WordPress’s blog and prevent spam from ever reaching your comments. It will display a custom ban message when the banned IP, IP range, host name or referrer url tries to visit your blog.

[Yahoo! Groups Blog] Yahoo! Groups Blog » Forward button removed from Yahoo! Groups: If you have a decently large group with PUBLIC message archives you should be able to see this reflected in your own group’s activity logs. If you don’t have public message archives in your groups, chances are slim you’ll see this abuse in the logs.

[onecoolsitebloggingtips.com] Blogging: Comment Spam Prevention « onecoolsitebloggingtips.com: Link limit: This blog is setup to automatically hold any blog comment with more than two links in the moderation queue, which may delay your comment from appearing. Any blog comment with more than two links may be marked as comment spam and deleted.

[Internet Marketing Blog by WordStream] Is There Value in Blog Comments, or Are They All Spam and Trolls ...: Maybe I'm off base but I think the few people who want to enable comments are people who want to produce content without having to maintain or put up a blog or micro blog or any other spot to publish. It's like passive aggressive thing, they want to be part time publisher without making the long term commitment to being a publisher, and want you to do it for them.

[Blazing Minds] Free Traffic For Beginners: Please be aware that all comments made are moderated and SPAM will not be tolerated, make sure you use your real name or your blogging name, you can also utilise KeywordLove, if we deem a comment to be SPAM then it will be edited or deleted! SPAMMERS are not welcome here!

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