Outing the Spam Bloggers One at a Time
Responding to a call from Mark Cuban to rid the world of blog spam, Frank Gruber has created a site called Splog Reporter where anyone can tattle tale on sploggers.
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Nice... but too much work ( go to site, fill out fields.. ) - if it was a bookmarklet requiring a single click ("this is splog") then ... perhaps .... But considering the number of splogs, I doubt it will help a lot - and then we didn't even consider misuse of the spam reporting facility (a'la flagging wars on CraigsList). As I proposed before, perhaps when technology fails, economic measures should be used to fight spam. Any decent blogger can afford a $3 monthly fee, or perhaps a one-time setup charge, yet it would be a considerable financial burden for spammers who automatically generate blogs by the thousands.
Posted by:Zoli Erdos | Wednesday, August 17, 2005 at 05:49 PM
Steve,
I think it's great that Frank has created the Splog Reporter. Hopefully it's going to stop the broad generalization that anyone who uses Blogger/Blogspot is a spammer/splogger.
As someone who uses Blogspot, I think it would be a shame to see IceRocket turn their backs on a huge market of potential users.
Posted by:suburbia75 | Wednesday, August 17, 2005 at 06:00 PM
No matter how hard you try you cannot engineer the identification of all spammers/sploggers. They always adapt. My thinking is that the real way out is the enducation of the mass of legitimate bloggers out there. Educate them on how to create unique content and value add.
Posted by:David Daniels | Wednesday, August 17, 2005 at 06:51 PM
like:
http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2005/05/09/automated-newsmastering/
or the more funny
http://www.autoblogger.net/ad.htm
Posted by:Chocotoffert | Wednesday, August 17, 2005 at 11:54 PM
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Posted by:kris | Thursday, August 18, 2005 at 04:17 AM