Comment Spam
In order to leave a comment, which I encourage of everyone who has anything to add, you now need to retype in a special code which will be displayed in the comment form. At most a minor inconvenience - my amazingly non-technical mother could figure it out.
Why? I'm getting too much "comment spam," which you probably don't notice as I've been deleting it pretty quickly.
Comment spam is usually flagrant advertisements for viagra, cheap software, online poker, penis enlargement, etc., normally left by automated bots. The bots can't read the special code and reenter it (at least not yet), so they can't leave their garbage spam comments.
Some dummies probably actually buy from comment spam advertisements, however more important to the spammers is the links they leave in their comments. Search Engines, in part, determine relative page rank for searches based on the number of links a webpage has to it. After all, if lots of people link to it, it must be good! Spam comments increase the number of links to a page, raising its importance in the eyes of the Search Engines, and in the end delivering more Search Engine directed traffic and sales to the spanners.
In the Comment Spam Manifesto, I've left a comment suggesting death, maiming, or at least corporal punishment (a hefty spanking) for comment spammers.
Spammers are criminals - remember that!
Why? I'm getting too much "comment spam," which you probably don't notice as I've been deleting it pretty quickly.
Comment spam is usually flagrant advertisements for viagra, cheap software, online poker, penis enlargement, etc., normally left by automated bots. The bots can't read the special code and reenter it (at least not yet), so they can't leave their garbage spam comments.
Some dummies probably actually buy from comment spam advertisements, however more important to the spammers is the links they leave in their comments. Search Engines, in part, determine relative page rank for searches based on the number of links a webpage has to it. After all, if lots of people link to it, it must be good! Spam comments increase the number of links to a page, raising its importance in the eyes of the Search Engines, and in the end delivering more Search Engine directed traffic and sales to the spanners.
In the Comment Spam Manifesto, I've left a comment suggesting death, maiming, or at least corporal punishment (a hefty spanking) for comment spammers.
Spammers are criminals - remember that!
posted by Ted Demopoulos at 1:02 AM
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