Content Spam
How to Write Good Spam Content Let me start off with saying I hate content spam. Some of the replies I get with links in them are just awful. If you are going to spam someone at least read the article, and at make sure what you are writing is (in this case English) in some remotely proper and related comment.
Have a read.
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 …