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Many of our registered users have been seeing spam comments coming from various vendors such as Ugg Boots, Term Papers, etc.
The spam comments read something like “I enjoyed this post,” while putting in a link to their website to increase their incoming links to better their search engine rankings or so they think.
The Biker Law Blog runs on a B2evolution engine that has robust anti-spam and security measures to ensure that this kind of crap does not go on.
In the past I have had to implement moderation of blog comments because robot spammers were inundating the Biker Law Blog with BS comments. I used Captcha in the past, which is a system that requires you to input numbers and letters on a picture to verify that you are a human. The Captcha system made it more difficult for users to post comments, but it was almost 100% effective in blocking the spammers.
With the latest upgrade to our Blog software, Super Guru Ed, programmer extraordinaire implemented a security system with requires you to read a question, and give a proper response before you can post a comment or send a message. It appears that we now either have a few persons out there that do nothing more but post spam comments to Blogs, or they created a robot to bypass the security system.
I have their analytics and have banned these perpetrators, and reported them to the central B2evolution spam list to be banned by all B2evolution blogs. This was a heavy duty thing for me to do, but enough is enough. I got sick and tired of deleting their spam comments every day or every other day, and I am sure our readers also got sick of seeing their spam comments.
Now for legitimate commenter’s
Look we have a huge registered user community on the Biker Law Blog, as well as a huge visitor base. We are getting well over 100k unique hits every month, with about 85,000 hits in the past 15 days alone.
We will approve all legitimate comments, even if you post a commercial URL in your contact info when you do your comment. Hell sometimes I review products, or users have links to other great products, go ahead and post away. What I am looking for is information or comments that add value to the Biker Law Blog community.
We value all of your legitimate comments and opinions!
The readers of the Biker Law Blog do not want to read outright advertisements or BS spam comments just to get you incoming links to your site.
Let’s keep our shit together Cheech, and keep the comments flowing.
By California Biker Attorney and California Motorcycle Accident Lawyer, Norman Gregory Fernandez, Esq., © 2010
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I know the feeling. I have a few blogs (using WordPress on my own hosting account) and they have some cool tools that block most of the junk.
Lately my competitors are coming to my site to post garbage overly promotional comments… on my blog!
The WordPress tools keep out most of the automatic junk, and the fact that I have to moderate comments keeps the human “junk” off my site.
A bit time consuming, but what can you do?
me too 🙁
I read about this happening. Someone pays actual people to pretend to be part of a community and push their spam. Human-powered. Almost impossible to stop 🙁
We’ll have to work out a solution eh? I’ve been very busy creating an alternative to b2evo – me and a handful of players you’d recognize from the forums. Meanwhile the human-powered is unbearable so something has to happen.
Ah well. Turing Test was nice while it lasted 🙂
Ed good to hear from you man. I just had to check and ban a couple of other spammers.
This week is kind of hectic because of work and the wedding. Lets connect after this week.
Norm