cogdogblog: Another in A series of Lows for Spammers: PhotoBlogSpam Comments and Trackbacks

CDB Entry: Another in A series of Lows for Spammers: PhotoBlogSpam

Thu, 07 Oct 2004 07:38:47 -0700

Everywhere you look on the internet the spammers are crapping and leaving their fetid roach turds. Last Spring, I did a presentation at the online TCC04 Conference on PhotoBlogging "Publish and Build Communities Around Digital Images". In that session I...

comment by: Greg. R

Thu, 07 Oct 2004 09:57:43 -0700

Alan, I suspect that your vociferous objections have made you -- and the sites that you are involved in -- a *personal* target for one or more spammers.

I don't see other learning object repositories or photoblogs getting spammed. In fact, I can't believe that spammers think there's so much Google PageRank value in the comments on a learning object listing that they need to spam it. And it's probably not as easy (or profitable!!) to make an automated comment script for a one-off system like MLX as it is to make one for a widely used weblog system like Movable Type.

It might be that you make a lot of noise about spammers, so you gets lots of "attention" from spammers.

Maybe it's time to take off the bullseye t-shirt?

comment by: Alan Levine

Sun, 10 Oct 2004 22:14:14 -0700

Maybe.

Perhaps.

Nice theories.

FWIW, most learning objects repositories lack comment tools, hence their spam avoidance.

If this is the case that my writing about this experience is the cause, then what is the lesson here? Shut up and take it? Roll over and die?

maybe.

perhaps.