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Spamming Technorati's Gardening Search
I HATE SPAMMERS!!
Was that loud enough? Did anyone miss the emotion and context that was emanating from my inner spoilt child?
Yesterday, as I was looking for inspiration through Technorati's list of gardening blogs I came across this list of spammy sites that Technorati has been cataloging - here's the link.
Then I'm scrolling through my del.icio.us RSS feed looking for a morsel to inspire my posts this morning and it seems that fireballxl5 feels the need to bookmark every item they read in multiples of 50. So rather than read some good articles and posts I'm restricted to what fireballxl5 thinks is important - PUNK!!
Not to mention the constant barrage of promiscuous Trackbacks that await me each morning or the comments from Texas Hold-em Poker as he shares what an interesting site I have.
I know I'm not the only one who has to suffer through these juvenile delinquents but I just want to know, WHY? Why are you a menace to society fireballxl5? Why don't you contribute rather than be a nuisance to all and sundry?
Enough ranting... I might go and garden and let off some steam instead. I pity the poor shrub that needs pruning today!
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Right now I'm trying commment moderation instead of having people enter letter recognition, but the comment spam is absolutely disgusting.
Stuart, I don't know anything about del.icio.us, but on the technorati, did notice that selecting 'by relevance' instead of 'by authority' came up with more real sites.
And as long as we're talking about the technical side, TypeKey asks for name, email & URL and says 'remember info', but it never seems to remember. Just wondering if you know why.
Annie at the Transplantable Rose
Posted by: Annie in Austin | February 7, 2007 12:13 PM
Oh Stuart, I hate them too! They are the entire reason I have to approve comments before they appear on my site. I really wish that I could just let everyone add comments and have them appear right away, but if I did that I'd have way, way too many links to Texas Hold'em, places to buy Viagra, and smutty stock-buying tips. It is soooo irritating! And, I'm glad you mentioned that they tell you how interesting your site is before they spam you. The same clown has been trying to leave comments for days now. He says "Nice site." Then he starts listing his links....annoying!
Posted by: Colleen | February 7, 2007 8:43 PM
Annie - unfortunately I am aware that the TypeKey authorisation doesn't save your info and I'm not entirely sure why.
I have configured it so that my TypeKey token has been accepted but for some reason it still fails to operate properly.
However, I use Firefox as my browser and it offers suggestions and remembers what I type whenever I need to fill in a form. It's not perfect but I have found that it's the next best thing.
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Colleen, sadly I'm happy that I'm not the only one that gets this stuff. I just wish something more could be done about these imbeciles.
Basically its the same thing as graffiti on a physical location. There are laws against this but there are very few laws against spammers.
Posted by: Stuart | February 8, 2007 3:53 AM