Topic: A new comment spam remove tool (Read 1429 times)
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« on: Feb 15, 2006, 09:00:46 PM »
Just found this, thought it would be valuable for the bloggers here.
Here are some words from the site of this tool :
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We can’t stand spam.
Who can? You have better things to do with your life than deal with the underbelly of the internet. Automattic Kismet (Akismet for short) is a collaborative effort to make comment and trackback spam a non-issue and restore innocence to blogging, so you never have to worry about spam again.
The tool works like a email spam detector, which actually gets all the comments, and returns them with an indication "spam" if they are actually comment spam entries.
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« Reply #2 on: Feb 15, 2006, 09:25:46 PM »
Yeah that number is really big, and it is reallistic.
Most of the comments that i usually see in blogs are like "Thanks for sharing this information" with a casino or health related link attached.
most of the webmasters are not removing those, because they actually make their sites look more active, but when the spam bots start posting a lot then it is a real problem.
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« Reply #7 on: Oct 29, 2006, 05:46:14 PM »
I don't think a spam detector has been implemented here yet. This thread got a trackback from a spam site. It is pretty funny how of all posts the trackback was on this one!