What Should You Do To Counter Attack SPAM Comment(s)
Friday November 14th 2008
Lately, these several weeks, I always get a SPAM comments.
The Definition of SPAM
In my opinion:
- Useless.
- Irritating.
- Anger spark.
- Make my server loads more than it should.
- Steal my bandwith.
- Indication on how good your blog are.
The more SPAM you get, means your blog is better.
- Stupid action!
From the WikiPedia
Spamming is the abuse of electronic messaging systems to indiscriminately send unsolicited bulk messages. While the most widely recognized form of spam is e-mail spam, the term is applied to similar abuses in other media: instant messaging spam, Usenet newsgroup spam, Web search engine spam, spam in blogs, wiki spam, Online classified ads spam, mobile phone messaging spam, Internet forum spam and junk fax transmissions.
Spamming remains economically viable because advertisers have no operating costs beyond the management of their mailing lists, and it is difficult to hold senders accountable for their mass mailings. Because the barrier to entry is so low, spammers are numerous, and the volume of unsolicited mail has become very high. The costs, such as lost productivity and fraud, are borne by the public and by Internet service providers, which have been forced to add extra capacity to cope with the deluge. Spamming is widely reviled, and has been the subject of legislation in many jurisdictions.
Hence, how to Counter Attact SPAM?
1. When the SPAM comment(s) is caught by your askismet.
What you don’t have askismet?
Go ahead and install this first.
Wheter you can,
- Leave it, as it will be deleted after 30 days.
- Delete it right away to save your mySQL database space.
2. When the SPAM comment(s) passed the askismet filter.
When the SPAM comment(s) passed the askismet filter, meaning that particular comment(s) is published publicly where you can read it and your visitor also can read it.
Instead of click the delete link, you should click the SPAM link.
When you click this, the unappropriate comment(s) will be reported to askismet.
This not only helps you to prevent SPAM comments appear in your blog but also contribute to the whole communiti of bloggers who use askismet too.
Take the lesson, so don’t become a SPAMMERS yourself…
Here are some funny comic stripe of how irritating SPAM to all of us…
Enjoy.
Image by: toeatsmoke
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On November 16th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
appleblogger said:
i like that cartoon. nice!
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Pangeran Wiguan Reply:
November 16th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
@appleblogger, it was design by toeatsmoke…
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On November 30th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
rajapayloadz said:
hoho..that what nice explainantion. Anyway, i also hate spam comment. Sometimes its really annoying!
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