Comments on: Jane… er, Google, Stop This Crazy Machine

By: Alan Levine aka CogDog

Alan Levine aka CogDog — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:43:08 +0000

I’m mixed on captchas Tom, as many (e.g. Typepad) or just horrendously PITA as a user. I am more fond of recaptcha http://recaptcha.net for both the implementation and its **ahem** collective intelligence approach to digitizing books.

However, I realize I left out an important note- alot of this spam is also trackback pings, so a captcha does not help there.

By: Tom Carding

Tom Carding — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:09:51 +0000

CAPTCHA is your friend. Implement some proof of life, however minimal, and you will find the comment spam drops away!

The incentive will always be there as long as links work and people have things to sell.

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By: shebaduhkitty

shebaduhkitty — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:18:51 +0000

You are not alone. I have been deleteing 100′s of spam comments from this one entry on my school blog and it is very annoying. I was seriously contemplating deleting that entry, since it seems to be the only one getting hit, but then I figured they would just target another one. thanksfully I am on moderated status so they don’t show up ever, but adds to my time moderating.

By: Leslie M-B

Leslie M-B — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:20:04 +0000

And I think it’s only going to get worse. I keep an eye on internet marketing circles (most subcultures fascinate me–what can I say?), and there’s new, inexpensive software coming out every day that makes it easy to for “marketers” to get such backlinks by spamming blogs.