ERNIE -- I used Ernie Svenson's comments' blacklist a few months ago because his website was being hit by comment spammers as often as mine. I'm sorry to see he's disabled his comments. When I first started using Typepad, I deleted a minimum of two spam-happy comments a day. It made me wish Typepad inherited the MT-Blacklist utility. It's much easier to block havens of spammers by corporate knowledge about where they're based. I've never envied P45 for its headaches related to silencing the wankers who crawl like maggots to every open discussion area.
These comment spammers don't understand that Typepad does not provide hyperlink text for the terms they put into the comments block. In simple words, spamming Typepad comments does not enhance Page Rank. Unfortunately, most of my spammers are Chinese, Polish, and Russian. I don't think they understand what I've written here--it's repeated again and again in search engine fora. The fact they haven't twigged onto this basic fact means they must be really stupid plus have a lot of time to spam the wrong places.
Dealing with comment spam is a real issue for blogs that attract more than 1000 visitors daily. I'm consistently around 2000 daily, which equates to pruning the unwelcome comments from at least four comment spammers at different times during the day.
Update 8 May 2004. I've traded blocklist IPs with JD Lasica and curbed most of my comment spam. I have a daily run-in with a Russian and a German, both using dial-up nodes. I wish I knew a way of blocking comments from dial-in viewers using Deutsche Telekom. Ernie the Attorney -- "Goodbye Comments--Spammers Win"
Bernard Tyers -- "blog spamming"
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