Google finally has a plan to deal with comment spam! And all the big players are on board. Great. The idea is simple: hyperlinks tagged with rel="nofollow" don't confer any google juice, thus hopefully taking away the reason for the spam in the first place.
I would install this feature here right away except for one thing. We already strip out *all* HTML from anonymous comments. Links are not in any way possible. And we still get comment spam! Still, maybe if everyone does this it will help. Clearly the situation is out of control and it is worth trying something.
arnt the advertised sites in some way responsible. the poker joints, the pharmacies ?
Sure, but there's not much you can do to them.
Big Salon article today on why Microsoft isn't doing more about spam. I could snag it if anyone's interested.
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I would install this feature here right away except for one thing. We already strip out *all* HTML from anonymous comments. Links are not in any way possible. And we still get comment spam! Still, maybe if everyone does this it will help. Clearly the situation is out of control and it is worth trying something.
- jim 1-19-2005 8:29 pm
arnt the advertised sites in some way responsible. the poker joints, the pharmacies ?
- bill 1-20-2005 12:15 am
Sure, but there's not much you can do to them.
- jim 1-20-2005 12:55 am
Big Salon article today on why Microsoft isn't doing more about spam. I could snag it if anyone's interested.
- tom moody 1-20-2005 1:06 am