That's right, blog spam isn't the problem whatsoever and technically it shouldn't even exist if it wasn't for the sloppy work of the idiot programmers that write blog software. Anyone leaving the comment forms wide open so that any script kiddie could abuse it should have their programming license revoked.
Now there are even solutions springing up to monitor and stamp out blog spam and it's fucking ridiculous or would hysterical be the proper word?
For example, their feature claims:
AntiSpam Deluxe.Community maintained database, you must be kidding?
Get rid of referrer and comment spam thanks to a community maintained spam database.
Can you people say CAPTCHA?
I know you can, put a captcha on the comments and registration page to stop automation.
The part that just kills me is whoever was naive enough to put "registration" as the only means of defense without captchas in blogs thinking that making people register to post would stop spam because bots don't use cookies or register. I've noticed a few people resorting to registration alone as an anti-spam technique lately and that simply won't cut it. Wrong again, bots use cookies, so you better put a captcha on your registration page otherwise the bots just register as some random name and post anyway.
Now address manual spamming as follows:
- Filter out all posts that contain embedded HTML and URLs from all first time posters, just bounce any post that looks like spam.
- Don't hyper-link names of posters to websites until they become a trusted poster or register.
Can't post a link to your website?
Oh boo-fucking-hoo, then your spam won't drive visitors, so go the fuck away.
Wow, that was easy wasn't it.
- No community database
- No anti-spam service
- No bullshit
- No spam
Nope, you can still link out, just not on your first damn post, or maybe your first 10 posts. The easiest way to build up "post count" would be using automation which is blocked again, that's where the captcha's come back into play.
If you really want to piss off the spammers, require both registration AND a captcha.
Now go fix your crappy blog software, download a captcha and install it, and stop whining about spam ya bunch of cry babies.
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From closing the barn door after the horse has wandered off to loosing laptops full of unencrypted data that shouldn't be left unattended security is always a 'who'd a thunk it' afterthought.
Plan? budget? learn? have a bloody clue? not a hope, Pandora.
The ignorance of the individual is equalled only by the incompetence of the individual and is surpassed only when individuals combine to form a group.
Like that metaphorical tree your rant falls unheard by the deaf and the dumb. Do keep up the good fight, though. It's quite entertaining.
There's software out there now that can read captchas so it's not a completely failsafe solution.
Ah, that's because you're working from the text only version of the term captcha.
A captcha can be a picture of a tree or a dog too, let them read THAT....
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