Comments on: p2pnet comment spam: more

By: JACKWATSAN

JACKWATSAN — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:10:25 +0000

in general comments want to post any opinion on or before registering or not….
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jackwatsan

There are a lot of sites out there showing book video. BookVideoTV, BookTelevision and of course CSPAN, but I like how BN.com and Reader’s Entertainment TV have specific genre channels and original shows. There’s just more to see and I can be specific in what genre I’m interested in. Anyone else watch online tv?

Reader’s Entertainment

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 15:53:27 +0000

I think labeling his spam right below the post has helped prevent clicks. I notice he’s not so eager to continue when they’re all marked out which ones don’t need to be clicked on. It sort of looks successful as a preventive as they are no longer hid in the pile of posts that way. No one clicks on one to open it when they are marked.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 06:44:03 +0000

could allow registered users to rate posts up or down like on other sites like digg/slashdot that way spam gets hidden by consensus

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 18:35:59 +0000

Thanks for the thought, but I doubt if the returns would be commensurate with the effort : )

Meanwhile, most of the Chinese stuff has gone, leaving mainly e-junk from casino companies and gambling joints.

Cheers! And 2LHZI : )

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 17:14:44 +0000

I have been doing that for a while.
I would also think that it would help because forum searches
for the word Spam would lead mods to the spam so it can be
deleted.

I also gotta go along with Monkey’s post below.

Why the F doesn’t the gub’mnt work as hard to locate and
prosecute the REAL problem of unsolicited spam ??

( those that pay the spammers pay more in taxes ?? )

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 10:47:43 +0000

You will find that our dubious friend as been back spamming last night. He is now to the point he can’t do it automatically and must do it one post at a time. Only this time, I and another reader have been marking them. All that is needed to find them is to look for the subtopic “The above is spam”.

*NOTE: 5th attempt to enter string…

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 21:45:04 +0000

It has been a continuous annoyance to me that while the government(U.S.) has been EXTREMELY aggressive in passing anti-file sharing and pro DRM laws, it has done next to nothing when it comes to spam. Unlike file sharing, which primarily effects movie, music, and software companies, spam affects everyone negatively. I read somewhere that spam costs companies an enormous amount of money in time spent dealing with it. ISP’s are bitching about bittorrent, I would guess spam uses as much or more band width, and unlike bittorrent, where someone is dl’ing something they want, is unwelcome. I know it will never happen, but I would love to see the government go after spammers with the same aggression it has shown toward file sharers.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 21:07:05 +0000

Since the spam is comming from China, why not just block comment postings from China for awhile and see what happens.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 06:39:02 +0000

Get out the Kittie and Audio CAPTCHA

KittieCaptcha FTW!

Also, make it so registered users who post about 20 posts with captcha’s without any complaints can then no longer need to do the verification.

This seems to work very well for digg.

I have to open nano and type my message in there now because I always manage to get the damn thing incorrect and lose my post. Then all I gotta do is paste it outta the text editor.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 23:58:02 +0000

Couldn’t you use a system where you ask for the answer to a simple maths question to verify that people are not spammers?

You ask e.g. “What is one + one?” and people would put a ‘2′ in a box thus verifying that they are living and not spambots.

I think this would also work with screenreaders.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 22:09:20 +0000

Used at sites like LiveJournal.