Comments on: Long tail spam http://eightbar.co.uk/2007/02/23/long-tail-spam/ Raising The Eight Bar Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:14:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Ben http://eightbar.co.uk/2007/02/23/long-tail-spam/#comment-107707 Ben Tue, 12 Jun 2007 06:47:53 +0000 http://eightbar.co.uk/?p=284#comment-107707 I was expecting lots of pills and genital enhancements, but we seem to get lots of stuff about various makes of cars, as well as "Hello", "Good", "nice" and "please". We've had a WP site running for about a year, and have recently swapped over to Radiant (and moved comments over- 99% spam) You can see my graphs in this post: http://redant.com.au/blog/whats-in-your-spamtail/ I was expecting lots of pills and genital enhancements, but we seem to get lots of stuff about various makes of cars, as well as “Hello”, “Good”, “nice” and “please”. We’ve had a WP site running for about a year, and have recently swapped over to Radiant (and moved comments over- 99% spam)

You can see my graphs in this post: http://redant.com.au/blog/whats-in-your-spamtail/

]]> By: Alan http://eightbar.co.uk/2007/02/23/long-tail-spam/#comment-59526 Alan Sun, 25 Feb 2007 15:55:47 +0000 http://eightbar.co.uk/?p=284#comment-59526 As an owner of more than a handful of WP sites, I rely solely on Spam Karma 2 (http://unknowngenius.com/blog/wordpress/spam-karma/) which may be more aggressive than Askiment, but has rarely let me down. I think there is even a plugin to make the work together. My own howling at the moon is that Google's page rank provides a financial incentive for blog spammers, putting a burden of spam filtering on individual blog owners, some of whom resign to shutting off comment features. How is that fit with "do no evil"? As an owner of more than a handful of WP sites, I rely solely on Spam Karma 2 (http://unknowngenius.com/blog/wordpress/spam-karma/) which may be more aggressive than Askiment, but has rarely let me down. I think there is even a plugin to make the work together.

My own howling at the moon is that Google’s page rank provides a financial incentive for blog spammers, putting a burden of spam filtering on individual blog owners, some of whom resign to shutting off comment features. How is that fit with “do no evil”?

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