Summary: sorry for late moderation of some peoples comments, this post is a rant about spam, and i’ll be off wordpress as soon as I can be.
I haven’t been through the comment moderation list in over a month. Shame on me.
Sorry to those who’s comments were not posted until far later than they should have been.
Spam, spam, bloody spam. </rant>
Time for a Javascript based comment submission I think, and to move away from run of the mill blogging software, because there are few other solutions these days that actually seem to work, and in some ways, I have better things to do with my time than sift this crap.
Right ok. This is probably a really crap idea (almost worthy of an obscenity? you decide.), but I want to start filtering all urls in my comments into a list I’m going to publish as a DNS blacklist, which I will start distributing to anyone who desires it.
Screw you spamming gits. I’m going to filter all of my google searches from now on. Anything with your crap or something within a link catchers eye of your crap is not going to go near me.
What if comments can be flagged as comments for google, and google stop ranking sites by links left in comments?
In fact, links in comments should gain -ve weight, and the people should just be told.
I want a box on my site where i can publicly shame these fuckers and the google results will actually respond in a decent manner.
Sadly, that’s not possible because it’s subject to an attack by it’s very nature, with that you could demote the rank of competing sites. cryface.
Still I want to publicly shame them, but in order to not help them it must be private. Maybe I should e-mail _why and ask him to hide a spam site ban list in hoodwink.d for me…
I guess the rant wasn’t really over. Anyone else feel the pain?