Comments on: Remember that web site you made years ago?

By: Gagan

Gagan — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:39:59 +0000

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Line Items for 2009-07-07 | K-Squared Ramblings — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:36:29 +0000

[...] that web site you made years ago? Spammers do. [...]

By: Milan

Milan — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:46:22 +0000

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By: Hikari

Hikari — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:39:52 +0000

That pic made me really sad.

I love forums, the way data os organized and how ppl talk on it. Unfortunately, after orkut popped up, forums became less populated… I remember when ppl with just a bit mor popularity than normal used to create small free forums and ask their friends to call their friends to join those forums, and we met new fun ppl and admins started asking to click on “top forum” banners so that they won prizes like exclusive professional themes or even money.
Now orkut raped all that fun, and instead of intelligent ppl talking about intelligent stuff we see dumb ppl that don’t even know how to type fighting anybody with slightly differnt oppinions about dub subjects.

And that forum is like many others that I used to visit. Old small community forums that are now dead… and as if it wasn’t enough sad, spammers also use them, and it looks like a spammers forum with spammers “happily” talking with each other about spam subjects…

Yeah, those were the days

By: Bob Stone

Bob Stone — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:51:45 +0000

I have to approve all comments. Most of them come from Amsterdam porn sites which I don’t share with my readers though, I admit I have checked out the url they leave. Occasionally, I’ll e-mail a spammer and ask what their comment has to do with the subject of the blog entry. They never answer.

By: Milan

Milan — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:37:16 +0000

Spam was so much of a problem on an active wiki I run that I have had to lock it down completely.

Now, only registered users can edit anything, and users need to be manually created by me. It really undermines the wiki concept, but there was no alternative.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:19:28 +0000

This is true – though we’ve not seen evidence of it being a factor in web and forum spam. Web spammers tend to use new free email accounts when they need a working address – they can be bought for a fraction of a cent per email address.

By: Sue Bailey

Sue Bailey — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:13:34 +0000

This is SUCH a good point – I recently deleted about 10,000 spam comments from a blog that I hadn’t posted on for a couple of years. Scary.

By: Geren

Geren — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:00:39 +0000

Another problem is orphaned e-mail accounts that get hijacked. Unfortunately, many of the freebie e-mail providers don’t have any way to completely close or disable the account — and that includes the likes of Hotmail and Yahoo!

By: Matt Rogowski

Matt Rogowski — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:09:59 +0000

Ha, I setup a test forum a while ago, wasn’t used, checked it a few weeks ago, 8,000+ calendar events like this. Simple SQL got rid of them, but I was slightly amazed at the sheer volume of them in only a few months.