Stop the Spaminess!

Look people, even if you type the comment by hand, if your site looks like a spam site, I will not approve your comment. And yes, I check your site before I approve you. Leave me alone!

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  1. personal avatar Ali B.commenter rank
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    February 24, 2008

    I think its a good idea. But, what about people that don't have a website what so ever (like me)? Not that there are much of "us" in the world :)

  2. personal avatar davidcommenter rank
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    February 25, 2008

    I installed a captcha module on my drupal site and that managed to stop almost all of the spam... almost.

    I hate to bring it up, but wasn't google's rel=nofollow supposed to stop this madness?

    ~david

  3. personal avatar Richard McLaughlincommenter rank
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    March 5, 2008

    I look at the spam posts sent to my partner site, there are a lot, especially after something new gets published.
    I find there are 4 types of posts:
    1. Actual comment replying to the post
    2. Something that really could be #1, but are just posted for the link back to the posters site
    3. useless post with a link back - a phrase like nice post, look at mine http...
    4. true spam, I had 4 stopped by Askimet today. nothing logical, just links back. by people hoping you don't use asimet or the link.

    3 ?

    Oddly, I only spend 5 seconds clearing spam and that is MUCH better than the minute per post it used to take.

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