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- Castaa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23Hey but if it weren't for spammers, my blog would have no readers at all.
- RandomGuySteve, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Greetings fellow diggers. I've just introduced legislation that will outlaw the use of the phrase "Blogosphere" forever. Bombing begins in 5 minutes.
- interiot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Spammers have been on Digg for a while. Digg has a hidden karma system they use to track actions that seem less spammy that those that seem more spammy, and supposedly it works pretty well (we don't see much spam at least, despite the large amount of traffic that digg can send to a site)
- mulling, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I'm hoping to pressure my congressman to introduce legislation that would make amputation of the thumbs the standard punishment for first-offense spammers. Second offenses would move on to the genitals. Third strike would be public beheading.
It's an election year, and I think there's a good chance of getting this law passed. - brsly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Anytime you really want to make a technology problem worse, call your US representative.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'm glad I'm not the only one who saw irony in this. Bloggers are complaining that 70% of their so-called "blogosphere" is nothing but spam, and yet they go on high traffic sites like Digg and spam it with links to THEIR blog. Spam is spam, folks, and an attention whore is an attention whore.
- thedove, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5...and then all the blogspammers come to digg!
- Haplo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Problem with spam blogs is that they are very hard to clean up. Blogspot has no problem is users add JavaScript that redirects to spammy sites, which amazes me. Not that hard to check for eval and document.location. See: http://johnbokma.com/mexit/2006/07/13/
All blogs have been reported, probably 50% are still up. Nothing helps a spammer more then a clueless help desk :-( - forgetfulca, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Hear hear! And a similar fate for every other catchy-cause-it-sounds-techie-and-hip phrase or acronym.
- 13tongimp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Reagan joke ftw
- Shinta, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Umm... It's not that his life isn't interesting, it's that it isn't in any search engines/ isn't good.
- xakto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1dugg, it's a great read. An important point on the splog issue is that although 70% of pings are splogs he notes that they are identified as splogs and not indexed, which IMHO is a very important caveat. It also makes the fact that they are tracking 50 million, mostly legitimat
- V1ncent, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The funny thing is thanks to spammers, bloggers who always thought it important how active their blogs are are happy seeing the increased bandwith. Then the deluge of comment spam comes as well as the traffic that kills their server and suddenly they don't care about blogging for "popularity" anymore and post better not caring who reads it.
- Dlog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Not news; a research paper from the University of Maryland published in mid-2005 found this out. They also found that there were only somewhere over 500,000 genuine regularly-updated English-language blogs, among all the marketing / spam / MyHomepage / deadblogs and suchlike. Which suggests that despite blogsearch engine claims of "50 million blogs" (they have IPOs and buy-outs to service, after all), we probably currently have around 1 million regularly-updated English-language normal weblogs.
- Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Giant blogspam circle jerk.
- fyre2012, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1or maybe:
In solviet russia, spam blogs you! - Leg0z, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1the mortgage company I work for wanted me to start blog spamming. It was basically software that pulls blog posts from legit blogs then reposts it to your own and pings the blogggy pingomatic type sites. It does this 5 or 6 times a day. Google thinks your site has a ton of real live content so you get higher search engine results.
They bought the software, I installed it but came to my senses that what I was doing was just another form of spam... this was 3 years ago before it was really big.
I wont, say what software it was so don't even bother asking. Anyone who does this should be kicked off the Internet... this blog spamming is clogging up our TUBES!!!! - mjjack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Could you add "blogma" to that please? And how about "standardista" while you're at it.... wait... too many catch phrases..... can't stand it .....
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Not surprising, as 70% of the *visits* to my blog were spam before I took active measures. Specifically (I have a b2evolution setup), I disabled trackbacks and pingbacks, removed "most frequent links from" data from my front page, eschewed standard captcha practice (regular server-generated captchas *can* be hacked), in place of my own captcha system for comments (I have a script that uses POVray to make bulk captcha images with linked codes, which I can then upload in a tarball). Oh, yeah, and set Apache to just flat-out ban any domain ending in ".info"
And at that, I'm barely holding even... but it is wonderful to be finally able to see my *real* traffic without the white noise of spambots constantly drowning it out. - ejp1082, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That sounds about right. I've personally started more than 10, and only have two I still maintain. It's just so damn easy to start a blog, it's kind of like "why not?" as soon as the idea pops in your head.
Just searching blogspot or livejournal reveals dozens of dead blogs for every one you find in that's had a new entry in the last month. And then when you figure that the number does count every teenager who's just "OMG WTF LOL!!!!" on their blog... well, most of them are about as useful as spam blogs.
The 1.6 million posts a day is a much more telling statistic. If you assume the 50 million is accurate, then each of those blogs is only updating once a month, on average. On the other hand, if you assume that actively maintained blogs average 1-2 posts per day per blog, you wind up with around a million blogs, a much more realistic number IMHO. - pedrotuga, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1autopost spam blog posting is very common,
as for digg the spamming is more done on a manual base...
but this is old news....
blogger basically filled the web with trash content, and very high rated on google... - dvws, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1The best solution for this is to charge something for using the blog ping sites, even $5 or $10 a year would cut the spam pings in half
- brsly, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1If it weren't for bad blogs, I'd have no reading at all.
- 13tongimp, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I just installed the plugin Spam Karma 2 for my WP based setup and that thing works like a charm. It is simply amazing how much crap I get hit with, especially since I added my feeds to Feedburner. That place seems to have generated more spaming to my site than anything else.
- critic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0What kills me is spammers who define themselves as Yahoo Groups...
See CFNM
Obligatory...In Soviet Russia You Join Spam - vtunnel, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Spammers have been on Digg for a while
- Linkage155, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2Dude, maybe you should spice up your life a litle bit man..
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