Comments on: Long tail spam http://eightbar.co.uk/2007/02/23/long-tail-spam/ Raising The Eight Bar Thu, 10 May 2012 17:04:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.3 By: Aidan Bailey http://eightbar.co.uk/2007/02/23/long-tail-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-242869 Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:57:36 +0000 http://eightbar.co.uk/?p=284#comment-242869 Monetizing websites, blogs, etc is a good way to earn some passive income.`;”

]]> By: Ben http://eightbar.co.uk/2007/02/23/long-tail-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-107707 Tue, 12 Jun 2007 06:47:53 +0000 http://eightbar.co.uk/?p=284#comment-107707 I was expecting lots of pills and genital enhancements, but we seem to get lots of stuff about various makes of cars, as well as “Hello”, “Good”, “nice” and “please”. We’ve had a WP site running for about a year, and have recently swapped over to Radiant (and moved comments over- 99% spam)

You can see my graphs in this post: http://redant.com.au/blog/whats-in-your-spamtail/

]]> By: Alan http://eightbar.co.uk/2007/02/23/long-tail-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-59526 Sun, 25 Feb 2007 15:55:47 +0000 http://eightbar.co.uk/?p=284#comment-59526 As an owner of more than a handful of WP sites, I rely solely on Spam Karma 2 (http://unknowngenius.com/blog/wordpress/spam-karma/) which may be more aggressive than Askiment, but has rarely let me down. I think there is even a plugin to make the work together.

My own howling at the moon is that Google’s page rank provides a financial incentive for blog spammers, putting a burden of spam filtering on individual blog owners, some of whom resign to shutting off comment features. How is that fit with “do no evil”?

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