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the only way to battle spam is to either A) moderate all comemnts or B) close all comments Anything else can be bypassed
by vaksel 16y ago
the only way to battle spam is to either A) moderate all comemnts or B) close all comments
Anything else can be bypassed
- bemmu 16y agoThe spam filter on GMail seems to work well enough.
- vaksel 16y agotalking about comment spam here.
- jasonlotito 16y agoYeah, you missed the point here.
- CamperBob 16y agoWhat's the difference between email spam and comment spam, exactly? Why don't online forums use Bayesian filtering to get rid of comment spam?
- mishmash 16y agoI haven't followed SpamAssassin in several years, but have any startups ever tried running their comments through it? As you point out, it seems like many of their rules for emails would apply equally well to blog comments.
- mkr-hn 16y agoDoesn't Akismet work the same way as gmail's filter?
- brownleej 16y agoThat is the only way to battle spam with 100% effectiveness, yes. But there are other ways to do it that can still be very good, even though they're not perfect. The filtering for comment spam in Ping is subpar, and I don't think the difficulty of the task excuses the fact that Apple has done a poor job.
- gojomo 16y ago...or C) limit comment rights to a group of responsible, traceable people ...or D) moderate new registrants for a probationary period ...or E) enlist some of your users-in-good-standing for moderation ...or F) moderate just those comments which an automated system flags as having high spam likelihood (links, images, emails) ...or G) require some small demonstration/forfeit of value (such as a posting fee) for each post. (Risking a non-probationary account that took effort to create is a special case of this.) ...or H) blended variants of the above
- vaksel 16y agonone of those will work 100%
- CountHackulus 16y agoThey don't need to work 100%, just better than it works now.
- gojomo 16y agoDon't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
- mishmash 16y agoWow I love this comment.