Comments on: Comment Spam? How About An Ignore Tag?

By: AndrÃ©

AndrÃ© — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:28:48 +0000

Have a look at A Defense Against Comment Spam

By: AndrÃ©

AndrÃ© — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 23:58:33 +0000

I doubt that this will stop spammers from spamming blogs.
The one thing is that it’ll take long time until the most relevant SEs will work on this together. Of cource you may say only Google is relevant. In this case the task to sell this idea would be a lot easier.

The other thing, that i.e. spam still floods usenet.
Even though must usenet user have software which allows them to filter spam-posts or even prevent the download of those posts. There are other examples for mailboxes, guestbooks, blogs, search engine results etc. I think they will keep on spamming and it will be more effective to filter and delete them.

By: John

John — Sun, 09 Jan 2005 19:27:49 +0000

I think the idea of an ignore tag would be that spammers would have no incentive to post comment spam. The reason they spam comment sections now is to increase their SE rank by having more incoming links. Take away those inbound links and spamming has no SE benefits.

By: AndrÃ©

Mmh ... Even if the SEs would buy this idea, this wouldn't solve the fact that a blog containing hundreds of Mr. Poker or Casino comments would appear unmaintained. I think it would also be impossible to have discussions via comments in the blog, since the user would have to scroll along hundreds of spamcomments to find some legitmate comments.