What are spams and why we must fight them
Recently, I have written about the spam comments, which still queued in my moderation list. Maybe some of you out there still dont have any idea what is spam exactly. I have stumbled upon an interesting thread in Webmaster Malaysia forum discussing about the meaning of spam in easy words. And this description catch my attention: SPAM = Stupid Pointless Annoying Message!
According to Dictionary.com, spam is unsolicited e-mail, often of a commercial nature, sent indiscriminately to multiple mailing lists, individuals, or newsgroups. In other words it is junk e-mail.
How can spams affect your blog? First, it will give bad impression from the readers of your blog. I have read a blog short post, which has 200 comments. Curiously, I wanted to know, what discussions were going on? But disappointedly, they all are spams about, viagra, poker, etc. If a blog with good contents having hundreds of spam comments, I still consider it as a spam blog.
Some spam bots are smart enough to post nice comments on your blog such as; “I really like your site, keep up the good work.” and “This is a beautiful site.”
Besides, the spam bots also consume your bandwidth every time they visit your site. That means you are actually paying for spam comments. Therefore, as a blog publisher, we must fight against spam, because they are annoying. To fight spams from entering my Wordpress blog, I use the combination of Spam Karma 2 and Askimet after have been suggested by my readers (I only use Askimet before). Both plugins are free to be used. To use Askimet you must have Wordpress.com API Key (What is this?), which can be obtained from Wordpress.com.
Both plugins work great and everyday, almost 50 spams are caught. Are your blog is protected from spams? If don’t, protect it now before you have to waste your time deleting hundreds spam comments on your blog.
Further reading:
How to Stop spam without lifting a finger using Askimet (Video Tutorial)
Lorelle on Wordpress on spam
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4 Responses to “What are spams and why we must fight them”
akismet can let us down sometime. i think it’s better to use captcha to make sure that the one who leave a comment is a real human, not stupid useless robot leaving links of viagra, d#ick pill, and other nonsense thing. 
aad_lfcfn
January 20th, 2007
Thanks for the advice. I just got a blog started so I haven’t had the problem. I always connected SPAM with just emails, but I can see how it’s a problem in blogs. I’ve seen the blogs with hundreds of comments, too, and it really kills any real discussion that can be had when every three posts tells you you’ve got penile dysfunction lol. I’d imagine the bandwidth costs would be pretty significant, too.
vic
March 20th, 2007
I hate spam emails and spammers! There is a law about spamming online but it is never exposed! Does anyone know more about this? http://tier-one-provider.com
john
November 7th, 2007
