Comments on: Blog comment spamming being outsourced to India http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2006/11/25/blog-comment-spamming-being-outsorced-to-india/ EBB is the ebiquity research group\\\'s blog at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). We focus on technologies that facilitate the design, implementation and control of distributed, intelligent information systems -- mobile and pervasive computing, ad hoc networking, multiagent systems, knowledge representation and reasoning, and the semantic web. As the tides of technology ebb and flow, we hope the good ideas wash up on our beach and the bad ones drift back out to sea. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:39:45 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: juan http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2006/11/25/blog-comment-spamming-being-outsorced-to-india/comment-page-1/#comment-29775 juan Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:19:42 +0000 http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/?p=857#comment-29775 well I think that you have reason, however I think that the idea of blogs and the chance to post comments on them is that people give their opinions and beliefs about the topic, so if you liek what people comment and want to go to the website he is writting from, I find no problems, howeber, I know how annoying it is to have spent time writing someting in order to have other reading it, and find comments like "I agree with you" or "nice!". But if people really sepnd their time reading the text you wrote and are expressing their ideas about it, I think it's quite reasonable. I don't know what you think about this. well I think that you have reason, however I think that the idea of blogs and the chance to post comments on them is that people give their opinions and beliefs about the topic, so if you liek what people comment and want to go to the website he is writting from, I find no problems, howeber, I know how annoying it is to have spent time writing someting in order to have other reading it, and find comments like “I agree with you” or “nice!”. But if people really sepnd their time reading the text you wrote and are expressing their ideas about it, I think it’s quite reasonable. I don’t know what you think about this.

]]> By: Jason http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2006/11/25/blog-comment-spamming-being-outsorced-to-india/comment-page-1/#comment-29763 Jason Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:52:25 +0000 http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/?p=857#comment-29763 Tim, Maybe if you made it clear you were using "no-follow" tags that may chase them off? Tim,

Maybe if you made it clear you were using “no-follow” tags that may chase them off?

]]> By: Blogs, Spam And Rank | Merjis Internet Marketing Blog http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2006/11/25/blog-comment-spamming-being-outsorced-to-india/comment-page-1/#comment-26928 Blogs, Spam And Rank | Merjis Internet Marketing Blog Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:18:21 +0000 http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/?p=857#comment-26928 [...] Blog spam is interesting for several other reasons, of course - not least being that there is a widely used technique to de-rate comments - the NOFOLLOW attribute for links. As with a bunch of other bloggers, I tend to prefer using spam rejection tools rather than nofollow. IMO, it’s better for users to see real comments than to (ineffectively) defuse spamming efforts with NOFOLLOW. CAPTCHA is moderately effective, but still places a burden on real users - and also still allows outsourcing spam generation to low cost economies. [...] [...] Blog spam is interesting for several other reasons, of course – not least being that there is a widely used technique to de-rate comments – the NOFOLLOW attribute for links. As with a bunch of other bloggers, I tend to prefer using spam rejection tools rather than nofollow. IMO, it’s better for users to see real comments than to (ineffectively) defuse spamming efforts with NOFOLLOW. CAPTCHA is moderately effective, but still places a burden on real users – and also still allows outsourcing spam generation to low cost economies. [...]

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