Spam Rapidly Increasing In Weblog Comments notes that BBC News has a nice article discussing 'flyblogging', the phenomenon of spammers leaving advertising-related posts on personal weblogs. And there are some comments on tools. Interestingly enough, Live Journal has built in antispam tools. You can set your journal so that only users with accounts can comment. Too much trouble for spammers. And of course this LJ facility also means that you know who is reading/commenting, and you can read them back, easily enough.
I've had to turn off some of the comments functions on my MT because of the spamm... did it last month.
Posted by jason at October 27, 2003 01:29 PM | TrackBackI did notice that somebody named Lolita kept leaving strange comments, but I had the sense not to click on any of her links.
Posted by: Ben at October 27, 2003 01:55 PMI just readsomewhere that if you change your template so that the word 'comment' doesn't appear, it confuses the flyspammers...
Posted by: jason at October 28, 2003 07:42 AMthis may be a horribly inept question but what's a flyspammer?
Posted by: sanam at October 29, 2003 11:03 PMInept? how could a question like that be inept? that said, reading the article would help. "It felt like the digital equivalent of flyposting - coming home one day to find your windows covered with posters for dodgy clubs and bands you have never head of."
Posted by: jason at October 30, 2003 06:45 AM