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By: » The Comments Conundrum | Web Development Blog: Heidi Adams Cool

» The Comments Conundrum | Web Development Blog: Heidi Adams Cool — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:04:57 +0000

[...] More Spam To Follow (Eric Meyer on rel=”nofollow”) [...]

By: No follow, no interconnection at Onno Bruins

No follow, no interconnection at Onno Bruins — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:26:13 +0000

[...] +Eric Meyer: More Spam to Follow [...]

By: A Fool’s Wisdom » Do Follow WordPress

A Fool’s Wisdom » Do Follow WordPress — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:25:13 +0000

[...] from Google. But it still feels like it was a sledge hammer and that is reflected by Eric Meyer discussions on the issue at the time. But most of the services seemed to, which speaks to the real pain they [...]

By: geek ramblings » Follow you, follow me

geek ramblings » Follow you, follow me — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:42:38 +0000

[...] It had no way to know whether it was de-juicing a good guy or a bad guy. (Eric Meyer had some good thoughts on this subject, [...]

By: Mike's Blog => Say No To Nofollows!

Mike's Blog => Say No To Nofollows! — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 21:09:49 +0000

Trackbacking your entry…

[...] in fact it may have even trigger more trackback spam, .. So I think if people contribute to my blog by adding a comment they deserve a link, a real link without a nofollow! ..Say no to nofollows! [...]

By: Leonardo Burci

Leonardo Burci — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 06:17:28 +0000

see blog of Ben Hammersley

“Let no fellow nofollow, lest we all lie fallow”

http://www.benhammersley.com/weblog/2005/01/20/let_no_fellow_nofollow_lest_we_all_lie_fallow.html

By: Burningbird

Burningbird — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 20:33:05 +0000

Conversation
I am working on a follow up post on tags and folksonomies, but the going is slow, not the least because I’ve been helping folks with trackback spam and various other technical problems. Too much so at one point because I think I deleted good trackback…

By: RKB

RKB — Sat, 29 Jan 2005 07:01:28 +0000

Eric,

I’ve recently implemented a solution that’s along the lines of what you’re currently doing, and your response in comment #15. I don’t think it’s quite ready for prime-time yet, but it’s at once user-friendly (that is, it’s transparent to the end-user), and completely effective at stopping spambots.

Seems to be that continues to be the best path — differentiating between bonafide human interaction and bot-related activity.

By: The Red Baron Blog

The Red Baron Blog — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 03:08:21 +0000

Follow Google to Spamsville
I know what Seth is saying. Dieting books are all the rage, and yet, they don’t seem to truly solve the problem, because statistics prove that losing weight…Is a losing battle. And yet, here I am…Living proof that it can be done. So, if you wer…

By: Minh’s Notes

Minh’s Notes — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 18:56:21 +0000

Ever closer
Google is getting ever closer to becoming the Grid.

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 04:11:35 +0000

Personally, the only way I could see all this comment spam stopping is to stop leaving blogs up and running if not maintained. Probably the best way to do this is to set all blogging software to disable comments (and maybe even comment links) after X weeks. I am sure there is a way to strip out the link tags after the fact.

By: craig

craig — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 22:54:33 +0000

From comment number 8 we see this: Comment spam needs to be stopped before it “explodes”.

I would venture to say that a large group of people are suffering a lot of collateral damage…the explosion is HERE.

I applaud the work of Eric and others who work so hard to give us simple bloggers the tools to stem the tide. Thanks to you all!

Despite my own cynicism about the corporate reasons for implementing “nofollow” I still support any effort to make life miserable for spammers. I just don’t want to make life miserable for myself as a site admin nor do I wish to penalize my site visitors in any way for posting legitimate links to sites and articles of interest.

By: clint

clint — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 05:51:11 +0000

nice write up eric, never ceases to amaze me how spam bots are written and the tremendous amount of man hours that are required to stop them.

I do tip my hat to you for continuing to make commenting available for us, as so many have abandoned the feature.

Unfortunately, the spam bots have done alot of damage to the very basis of what drives the web – interactivity. guess it is us against the machines.

By: Block Sheep

Block Sheep — Sun, 23 Jan 2005 04:37:21 +0000

funny this is exactly what eric's talking about, except for other kinds of technology: Exploring the law of unintended consequences [printer-friendly] | The Register

By: Martin Lucas-Smith

Martin Lucas-Smith — Sun, 23 Jan 2005 02:07:58 +0000

> blindly applying a nofollow to every comment-based link will deny Google juice to legitimate, interesting stuff

I don’t agree – google will surely find the target pages in other ways, if the site is legitimate..