Blog Spamming Run Amok
Yes, I know it may annoy some in the future but I cannot help it. I am no longer allowing anonymous posting here at "The Maisis Outlet." The Blog spammers are ruining it for everyone. I cannot stand that crap. I actually first heard about the problem for the first time last week when listening to a podcast of TWiT or "This Week in Tech" with Leo Laporte and a group of the old Screen Savers gang from the former TechTV. This of course was before the dark times, before G4 and the take over that brought us G4-TechTV. The take over that destroyed any hope of refuge for those in search of true quality geek television. Anyway, I digress! So, I had only heard of this blog spam problem for the first time last week and now I am fighting the problem here as well. I mean I am not really for sure what my starting a Podcast has to do with someone selling viagra but... . So as you can see I had to remove anonymous posting in order to make the problem go away.
Blog Spamming is evidently become a major issue and is requiring blog administrators to cut out the anonymous posting capabilities all over the net. Make sure you do some reading and protect your blog. The last thing you need is to have someone blog spamming lude comments to your blog that get you black flag by one of those companies that provide customer content filtering on the web. You know, those companies that block customer access to site deemed by them to contain indecent material.
Blog Spamming is evidently become a major issue and is requiring blog administrators to cut out the anonymous posting capabilities all over the net. Make sure you do some reading and protect your blog. The last thing you need is to have someone blog spamming lude comments to your blog that get you black flag by one of those companies that provide customer content filtering on the web. You know, those companies that block customer access to site deemed by them to contain indecent material.
posted by Maisis at 11:27 PM
3 Comments:
I usually make people sign up / login before they can make a comment...
It's a good idea (IMHO) because you can get rid of the kids that want to practice using profanity at the expense of the rest of the community.
Also, I've know several honest hard working people get slammed by their competition who sign on and post negative comments about their products...
Thankfully, we are moving towards all posts being 'tied' to a real person... and accountability should increase dramatically.
Yep, evidently that is what I have to do as well. The change is now made. You have to be registered as a member of this blog or there is no posting allowed.
Well, it seem I let my blog spam paranoia run away with me and I over tweaked the security settings. This prevented anyone from posting anything at all unless I went in and gave them special permissions. That ain't happening! This is not a full time job... it is a blog!
So I have turned on the nice word verification that I always curse at when I encouter it on Hotmail. I am sorry but it had to be done.
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