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October 07, 2003

Blog Comment Spammers

So far I have not been infected by the recent rash of blog comment spamming but a number of the sites I read regularly have been complaining about it. Well there is a solution.....

Pop over to Little Tiny Lies and find out what "the Teaspoon of Whipped Cream in Jennifer Eccleston's Navel" (actually I think his name is Steve) has to say about it:


By the way, I found a new way to handle comment spammers. I really think you will like this. I am considering putting in a queue, which means every comment will be reviewed by me prior to appearing on the blog. But it may not be necessary. Today, some cretin advertised a life insurance site in my comments, so I banned his IP and then changed his comment to read "Come to my site for cheap life insurance from a company that does not accept business from Jews!" It'll be there for as long as my blog exists, and there isn't one damn thing he can do about it. The next guy will get something like, "Email me for info on man-boy love," with the email address for his technical contact prominently displayed. This is way more fun than a queue.
I don't know why anyone would be stupid enough to spam my comments. No one will ever read a year-old comment to a long-forgotten entry, and I'm pretty sure they don't show up on Google. But if they're going to waste my time, I'm going to give them what they deserve.

Posted by Ozguru at October 7, 2003 12:10 PM

Comments

THIS IS NOT COMMENT SPAM. YOU ARE RECEIVING THIS SINCE YOU HAVE PREVIOUSLY EXPRESSED INTEREST IN RECEIVING READER COMMENTS ABOUT YOUR WRITING ON YOUR WEBLOG. ;)

Posted by: Kingsley at October 7, 2003 12:10 PM

ROFL. Thanks. I do appreciate all and any feedback (especially funny stuff like this one). What I don't want to see is a whoe bunch of natural viagra, body part extension treatment, and debt reduction schemes suddenly appearing. So far I have only had two but disallowing annoymous comments seems to have fixed that.

Posted by: ozguru at October 7, 2003 12:10 PM

Looks like a good way at getting back at Spammers, but it would envolve your precious time to make it effective. There are other ways.

Posted by: Tony S. at October 7, 2003 12:10 PM