Wired Article

[werty]

wired article [wired.com]

People have been complaining about this for a while and now an article has been released on wired.com

If the maturity of a Web technology can be measured by the amount of attention spammers pay to it, then blogging has definitely come of age.

After a wave of aggressive spam attacks this month, bloggers suddenly found themselves scrambling for antispam weaponry and confronting the questions that have bedeviled e-mail and Usenet for years. How much openness can blogs afford? What freedoms are bloggers willing to trade to keep spammers out?

[HughMungus]

I have a question about this. If I disable URL's (i.e., as links) on my blog comments, would it still be worthwhile for a spammer to put his URL's on my comments?

[plasma]

lol?

Google itself is promoting blogs with it's 'blog-this' junk^H^H^H^Hfeature in the new toolbar.

[werty]

I have a question about this. If I disable URL's (i.e., as links) on my blog comments, would it still be worthwhile for a spammer to put his URL's on my comments?

To rephrase this: If you make it so no one can add a link to your comments would there be any value in it for the spammers to keep submitting to you comments?

If the urls are not showing as links, they they do not count as incoming links and would have no value.

[HughMungus]

plasma, I'm going to sound like a broken record here but blogs, themselves, are not the problem. It's a system that can be abused, just like email and, ironically, google, itself.

[HughMungus]

Exactly, werty. I was wondering if the link as text would be worthwhile to them (in keeping with my personal practice of not allowing links in my blog comments).

What's interesting about this is that Blogger (owned by Google) doesn't allow comments inherently (though many third-party services do make that possible).