Thanks for Spam Karma 2 and WordPress’ built in anti-spam features, I don’t have much of a problem with comment spam these days. It looks like Blogger must still be dealing with it, though. As far as I know, they’ve always required you to sign in to post a comment. Apparently, that’s not enough, though. Now you have to log in and respond to a CAPTCHA. Gadzooks. I’ll stop posting comments on Blogger sites when they require a blood sample for verification.
2 Responses to “Blog comment spam”
Block Spam on May 17th, 2006 2:45 am:
Spam Karma 2 and WordPress filter blog spam much better than Blogger. Thats was also the reason for me to kick off blogger. I wonder why Blogger is ignoring this problem.
It seems that Google can’t do enough to block spam on Blogger. I was doing some searching that turned up a lot of blogspot.com blogs in the results. Most of the posts had multiple comments, and nearly all of them were some sort of linkspam.
In addition, I was suprised by the amount of spam blogs I found, which seemed to be cribbing random sentences from other parts of the web and glomming them together into non-sensical entries. It makes me so happy to see job postings on rent a coder looking for someone to help set up 50 blogs on Blogger with the obvious intent of using them for some sort of spamming operation with the promise of ongoing work.