[extropy-chat] Off Topic: I love business analysts (who wouldn't?)

[Emlyn]

On 22/09/05, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 11:04:04AM -0500, Damien Broderick wrote:
>
> > >http://virtualemlyn.blogspot.com/2005/09/i-love-business-analysts-who-wouldnt.html
> >
> > The comments at the end were good. Yikes. Are all blogs this instantly
> > encrusted with spam?
>
> Only those which don't use anti-spam measures (moderation, or turinging
> a la CAPTCHAs).
>
> A further demostration that a new, half-assed medium is bound
> to rediscover wheels, albeit low-n polygonal ones. (Polling and notification,
> RSS Feeds for concentration/serialization, antispam -- just fucking hilarious
> -- if it wasn't so pathetic).
>
> --
> Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a>

Yup, and the spam on my blog is only the half of it. The real spamming
problem in blogs at the moment is coming from spammers creating new
blogs from rss feeds of real blogs, just to get better page rankings
in google apparently (does that even make sense?). Here, this explains
it...

http://scott.feedster.com/archives/153-Conversation-with-a-Blog-Spammer.html

Oh, and btw the chunky spam comments on my blog are there because I
allowed anonymous comments (accidentally), and when it started
happening I thought "cool, a new form of spam, show me more!" But now
I'm sick of it, so I've locked it down.

--
Emlyn

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