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From my analytics, around 85% of visits to my sites are now from bots. It's hard to say if these are oldschool bots or people just browsing the web via chatgpt

From my analytics, around 85% of visits to my sites are now from bots. It's hard to say if these are oldschool bots or people just browsing the web via chatgpt now, but the reality is that very few actually visit the actual sites I have anymore.

est 5mo ago
I think blogs should have a universal comment function, I'd love to engage ith the author but many blogs don't bother providing a basic textarea.
- philipallstar 5mo ago
  I think policing all the spam isn't worth the trouble.
- FabCH 5mo ago
  Send the author an e-mail.
- ffaser5gxlsll 5mo ago
  The universal contact function is usually there, and it's email. I tried many times: it works. Authors respond. Only very few people seem to want to keep it hidden. I'm dumbfounded by the number of times I see comments of the form "if the author is reading this ..." on a 3rd party comment side, with a link posted by somebody else, on a forum the author is likely never going to watch, followed by an actually useful comment that you could have _ensured_ the author reads by you know... just contacting him? Forum comments are just recipe for instant spam, and have been so in the last 10+ years. If you want to make them useful, it currently needs to be actively policed (not to mention: you can be responsible for the content posted as well in several countries now). As an author, only if you're trying to create an audience around your blog, all the hassle around it might be worth it.
- donohoe 5mo ago
  They typically do but are disabled due to the volume of spam and moderation overhead. Send an email.
- coldpie 5mo ago
  I got so much spam on my blog, I turned comments off. There's an email in the footer if readers want to contact me.
  - johanyc 5mo ago
    Do you get spam at that email address? I have not published mine because I hate spam
    - coldpie 5mo ago
      I mean yeah, but the spam filter takes care of it.
2ndorderthought 5mo ago
If you had any data over the past 5 years I would love to read a blog about this. Seeing the numbers would be impactful to me.
nozzlegear 5mo ago
The Huawei bot in particular is a scourge.

est 5mo ago

I think blogs should have a universal comment function, I'd love to engage ith the author but many blogs don't bother providing a basic textarea.

philipallstar 5mo ago
I think policing all the spam isn't worth the trouble.
FabCH 5mo ago
Send the author an e-mail.
ffaser5gxlsll 5mo ago
The universal contact function is usually there, and it's email. I tried many times: it works. Authors respond. Only very few people seem to want to keep it hidden. I'm dumbfounded by the number of times I see comments of the form "if the author is reading this ..." on a 3rd party comment side, with a link posted by somebody else, on a forum the author is likely never going to watch, followed by an actually useful comment that you could have _ensured_ the author reads by you know... just contacting him? Forum comments are just recipe for instant spam, and have been so in the last 10+ years. If you want to make them useful, it currently needs to be actively policed (not to mention: you can be responsible for the content posted as well in several countries now). As an author, only if you're trying to create an audience around your blog, all the hassle around it might be worth it.
donohoe 5mo ago
They typically do but are disabled due to the volume of spam and moderation overhead. Send an email.
coldpie 5mo ago
I got so much spam on my blog, I turned comments off. There's an email in the footer if readers want to contact me.
- johanyc 5mo ago
  Do you get spam at that email address? I have not published mine because I hate spam
  - coldpie 5mo ago
    I mean yeah, but the spam filter takes care of it.

2ndorderthought 5mo ago

If you had any data over the past 5 years I would love to read a blog about this. Seeing the numbers would be impactful to me.

nozzlegear 5mo ago

The Huawei bot in particular is a scourge.