[extropy-chat] Blog spam

Brian Atkins brian at posthuman.com
Tue Sep 27 05:45:27 UTC 2005


Since the blogspam is mostly automated, moving to a different host will not 
solve it. All blogs suffer from this. Some solutions are:

1. Eliminate comments permanently.

2. Moderate all comments. Can be partially automated by only requiring 
moderation of comments that have links in them.

3. Require a CAPTCHA in combination with user login for comments. Will not 
eliminate the few human spammers out there.

4. Some newer blog software is incorporating Bayesian comment filtering.
-- 
Brian Atkins
Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
http://www.singinst.org/



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