Ham versus Spam
p2pnet news view | Advertising:- Spammers just aren’t going to leave you alone. They’re continually devising new ways to force their offerings in front of you.
One of the things which has been puzzling me since p2pnet upgraded WordpPress was: how do you stop comments on one story without affecting all the others?
I really had to find a way because I was being flooded — and I do mean flooded — by comment posts from China on one particular story.
There were obvious scam-spams but they were somehow getting past Akisemet, which is generally excellent at stopping that sort of thing.
I eventually figured out how to block comments on a one-story basis, applied the change, and the flood stopped.
So this morning I was looking at the Akismet stats and saw Ham.
Ham? It’s Akismet’s name for legitimate comments.
I also wondered how they stacked versus against the bad stuff.
You can see the result in the chart on the right.
It boggles my mind to think there are people out there who must be actually responding.
But come to think of it, when you get right down to basics, there isn’t a whole lot to choose between this kind of garbage and the stuff pumped out by the likes of Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, etc.
JN
April 8, 2009
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April 15th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Depressing, but not surprising. Which is even more depressing.
April 15th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
I treat both advertisement and spam as like equivalents. Neither is wanted nor desired. If I am looking for something, I have a search engine to find a product, the rest of the time, it is a nuisance. Nor do I award those that managed to get past filters and the like to invade my viewing area. When I stand in the store, looking at products, the first thought that hits me is did this company invade my viewing space? If it did, I move on to the next product.
You are paying for advertisement in the price of the product. It didn’t come for free. You don’t get anything extra for the price of the advertisement. It’s a hidden tax that does nothing to improve the product.
Spam is much the same way in that you can’t trust the product to be all that it is claimed to be. Spam is not worth the time and effort it takes to clear your email box of it. I never read such if it makes it to my box. I report it as spam, deleted it unread, and continue on my merry way. It is very rare I actually see spam in my inbox as I never, ever, give out the email address except to family members and a few rarely selected friends. It makes spotting the spam very easy.