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2005/10/17

splog's hype useless?

@ 02:55 PM (31 months, 12 days ago)
I manage a small blog hosting website, and I must say the obvious; that this problem exists since a long time and little has been acted upon. A clear strategy has to emerge; containing anti-spam blog filtering (like e-mail spam filtering) maybe integrated into news readers. One can think of a browser extension too, that reports spam blogs to a centralised place, or even tries to "rate" or "signal" spam content in the current visited webpage. A simple solution like CAPTCHAs helps but is far from solving the problem. So long splogs get money for what they do, they will keep pushing.

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