Conversation with a comment spammer (January 1, 2007) In which I engage a new comment spammer and find out what he thinks.
12 items tagged with commentspam
Comments on comments (September 9, 2004) 2000 comments and spam.
Why IP banning is useless (February 2, 2004) Many proposals for eliminating comment spam are focused on banning or throttling comments from the IP address of the spammer. What those proposals fail to address is that IP addresses are neither unique nor hard to come by.
Spammer discussion (January 1, 2004) Inside the (very small) minds of comment spammers.
Comment Spam makes the news (November 11, 2003) A news story on comment spam with quotes from me and others.
Spam Talk (November 11, 2003) I had a comment spammer's site shut down. Apparently the spammer didn't appreciate it.
Cutting comment spammers off at the knees (November 11, 2003) How to hit comment spammer's where it hurts: in the wallet.
Filtered Comments (October 10, 2003) Content filtering won't do a thing to prevent comment spam.
Spam and Vandals, part 2 (October 10, 2003) My theories about spammers acting like graffiti artists appear to be correct.
Spam begets spam (September 9, 2003) If you want to reduce the flow of comment spam to your site, be vigilant in removing the ones that do get posted. Leaving them up, even for a short time, can catch the eye of more spammers.
Ounce of prevention (September 9, 2003) Steps I've taken to deter comment spam and how to keep bots from finding your comment forms.
Distributed comment spam prevention (September 9, 2003) An organic system that responds to wholesale comment spamming in real time.