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I had a few emails recently about annotations posted where the users’ names linked to porn sites. These are “comment spam” and are an increasing problem on weblogs. I generally delete them when I check through all the annotations every few days, but this time they were apparently more noticeable!
There are several methods of combatting these, and Six Apart (the company that produces Movable Type, the software Pepys’ Diary uses) is also thinking about it. When I get time I’ll look into implementing something, especially if it becomes more of a problem.
In the meantime… I will spot the spam eventually, so don’t worry about letting me know unless it’s particularly offensive or obstructive (most of it is pretty brief and anodyne, aside from the link to a porn site).
4 comments | Permalink | Thursday 23 October 2003 | Housekeeping
As an update to the previous item… I’ve made a change that will hopefully stop at least some of the “spam” appearing amongst annotations. For a while… Hopefully I haven’t broken anything else, but let me know if you notice anything has stopped working!
Be the first to comment | Permalink | Sunday 26 October 2003 | Housekeeping