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Tips On How To Deal With Anonymous Comment Spam
ave you ever experience So what do you do? Well, first
being flooded with things first – do not take it
anonymous comments? If yes, personally. There are two
then chances are you have been a approaches that you can use in
victim of comment spam. As with order to stop comment spam. The
everything on the Internet, spam first one is to learn how to tell
had also evolved. They are no the difference between spammers
longer limited to email. Today and regular users.
they can infiltrate and cause
havoc in your blogs and Web Now this would involve require
sites, on which you allow user to your posters to identify
leave comments. Comment spam is themselves. This would be an
becoming a serious problem extra step included in the
nowadays, which needed to be commenting process. This is the
resolved immediate. most popular approach in avoiding
comment spam, and has two
Just what are the reasons behind options.
comment spam? Well, it is to
increase their, or in the case of The first is called the “Turing
those so-called professional Test”. The most commonly used is
spammer their clients', ranking called the Completely Automated
in search engines. You see today, Public Turing Test to Tell
in ranking pages most search Computers and Humans Apart or
engines consider how many other simply CAPTCHA.
Websites have linked to it. Thus,
by leaving comments on your site It entails adding to your site's
the spammers' sites can achieve a comments area an image that
slightly higher search engine contains a random piece of text.
ranking. The text must be somewhat mottled
or blurred so that a human can
read it and is not discernible by then he or she can ban that
a computer. The commenter is username or email address.
asked to copy this text exactly
into a form field prior to This approach works in two ways;
submitting the form. one is that spammers do not want
to be identified and therefore
This process makes it easy to will avoid signing up. Second is
determine that the commenter is that even if they do sign up,
indeed a person, and not a bot. they would have to take the time
However, you still face the to sign up in order to spam and
problem of a human being spamming then be banned immediately.
your comments section manually.
Although it might sound
Another drawback in this kind of complicated since it is
approach is that users are forced code-driven, this solution
to perform an extra step in order involves a database of users and
to submit comments, which might simplified user management,
deter some people. This can be a therefore it will not take too
serious problem, particularly if much of your time. However,
your website is relatively new banning usernames might take some
and are trying to encourage time.
people to comment.
As for the disadvantages, there
The second option is to employ are some. Again since it requires
User Authentication. Here you users to perform numerous extra
will be requiring all users to steps they might be turned off
set up a username and password the idea of posting comments.
before they can comment on the This means bad news, because user
site. Once the administrator comments are quite vital in
finds a user spamming the site, improving your sites and not to
mention the rankings. legitimate post. Of course, you
can go through posts manually
One way to get around the hassle before they're made live. This
is to use cookies to way you can check and make sure
automatically sign in repeat that they are not spam.
users every time they visit your
site. Doing this will save them You also have the option to
from filling out login form and automate the process. All you
can simply start to post. need to do is create a list of
However, this alternative will keywords that are common to spam.
not ease the initial signup Then check each post against this
process. list. With this you can then weed
out any comments that contain the
The second approach available is offending words, such as
to catch comment spam after it gambling, poker, meds and so on.
has been added. Catching comment
spam will be necessary if you This comparison can be done in
decide not to bother with numerous ways and at a number of
determining whether or not the points during comment processing.
one posting a comment is a Most programming languages
spammer or a human user. It may usually makes it easy to check a
also be necessary if you have string for given keywords. Just
taken the steps above – some make sure that the string's case
comment spam is almost is also compared. How do you do
inevitable. this? Easy, just convert the
string to lowercase or uppercase
This approach entails the before you run the comparison. If
creation of a check that occurs you discover that the comment
after the comment is submitted to indeed contain the key words,
identify it is spam or a then you can warn the spammer and
immediately delete their comment. Website. Also, your list of
banned words might stop
What’s great about this approach legitimate comments from being
is that it does not require the posted.
person who is posting a comment
to take any extra steps. Thus, But the good news is that
your comments section remains well-designed sites will be able
simple and easy to use that human to avoid most spam, since they
users will feel encourage to post have taken into consideration the
comments. common spamming techniques. Spam
will remain to be a persisting
However, since some spammer problem and it is the site
changes the words used by the owner’s responsibility to
spam bot your keyword list must discover more ways to fight them.
also be updated. Another downside By continuously monitoring
here is that this technique will spammer's changing tactics, site
also be difficult to implement if owners will eventually succeed.
the spammer advertises products
that are relevant to your
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