Blog Spam Comments

blogger spam

blogger spam

Blog Spam Comments

I have a serious issue with spam comments in my wordpress blog and I’m sure many of you do as well. I have this blog setup to stick all comments into a que until i can approve or deny them. I hate having to spend so much of my time doing this. I almost need to hire someone just to remove blogger spam comments.

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Spam Killed Forums

Forum Spam

Forum Spam

Spam has Killed the forum.  I’ve operated about 15 forums in the past, some of them with up to 12,000 members. phpbb, vbulletin, even a few php-nuke/phpbb sites back in the day. (i usually hate it when people say back in the day, but it works here i guess)

Well it’s official, spammers have killed the whole forum concept. Forums in general are not very profitable, they are historically hard to monetize.  It is then compounded even further when you add in hundreds of spammers, spamming your forum. I’ve read the same thing all over the internet, its a game of cat and mouse and we are loosing people.  Re-Captcha doesn’t work when your spammer is a real live human being. Continue reading …