Posts Tagged ‘spam’

Why WordPress.com has so little spam

I came across a great post today on PlagiarismToday entitled Why WordPress.com is virtually spam free. It’s a well thought-out and researched article where Jonathan Bailey goes into why WordPress.com is partically the only blogging community that is pretty much free of splogs, spam and other nasty stuff. The article...

I love comments .. I hate Spam

I love when people leave comments to my posts. It provdes a sense of validation, in that someone out there is actually reading my posts, and it also increases the “value” of my blog by creating a conversation rather than a monologue. So I’ve decided to make commenting more fun...

I hate image spam

I’ve been getting a log of image spam recently, both on my personal email and on my work email. The problem with image spam is that most spam filters tend to look for word patterns and? particular keywords, and when an email just consists of one image, well, the spam...

Trackback Spam

I’ve killed the Trackback section on the itemTemplate.blogtemplate section of every posting. 99% of the trackbacks recorded by the site have all be spam, so I wasn’t seeing much value in leaving them there. When a future version of dasBlog adds an MT-Referral filter to Trackbacks (it’s currently only used...

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