Comments on: Trackback spammers beat Typepad nofollow

By: felamaere

felamaere — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 22:59:15 +0000

thank you for your work

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 15:48:14 +0000

Very good site! I like it! I just wanted to pass on a note to let you know what a great job you have done with this site..Thanks!

By: asp_funda

asp_funda — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 06:05:33 +0000

joaquin, I think that you better open a thread in the forums. Btw, you can do anything you want with WordPress, bend it, twist it, its GPL, so no restrictions on hacking & modifying the software!! :)

By: joaquin_win

joaquin_win — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 01:14:20 +0000

I checked WordPress, great software, the problem is that I wish to use my own front-end… specially the public area of the blog. It is posible to develope a theme for it, but I actually had something different in mind. Is it leal to use only their scripts but rebuild the graphical end?

Thx (maybe I should open a forum instead, or is it ok to use this comments this way?)

By: asp_funda

asp_funda — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 05:15:31 +0000

Six Apart only released a version of MovableType with built in anti-spam tools last week with MT 3.2.

Yes & those anti-spam tools are hardly worth a mention, you should know, as I've seen, SixApart hasn't really focused as much on anti-spam as they should've!!!

Where can I get som info on good anti-spam for blogs?

Joaquin, you can install WordPress and SpamKarma2 with it & forget about spam. Its almost 100% effective against SPAM. :D

By: joaquin_win

joaquin_win — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 03:26:43 +0000

Hi, I’ll soon will be coming into the blogin scene. Where can I get som info on good anti-spam for blogs?

By: DanThies

DanThies — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 03:06:14 +0000

The problem, of course, is that someone could get you banned too… :D

By: AlexW

AlexW — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 00:30:34 +0000

The problem with penalizing the destination site is that you have no idea whether they’re responsible for the link. If search engines penalized the target, competitors would take advantage… especially in the amazingly fun porn/pill/casino markets.

I see what you mean, Dan.

But hey, if they all managed to get each other banned, the problems solved :)

By: I, Brian

I, Brian — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 19:48:31 +0000

Wordpress has some great anti-spam tools already installed, but Six Apart only released a version of MovableType with built in anti-spam tools last week with MT 3.2. As for AlexW's comments:

At the end of these spam links, there is a destination site. It will inevitably have a signature pattern of mostly unrelated, unqualified incoming links. Flag it. Ban it.

Do that and you immediately have the spammers using normal sites as shields against anti-spam. One apparently already doing the rounds is documented by SpamHuntress.

By: asp_funda

asp_funda — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 15:39:27 +0000

right ye are Dan, but then this sort of advantage can be taken right now as well!! Like suppose you are my competitor & in-order to give my website a badname, you go out on a SPAM run & SPAM thousands of weblogs & forums etc. with my link, making it look like I did it, all the while I’m unknown to this evil. And then the RBLs and other Blacklists will have my domain sitting pretty in their database, no?