A change in the way comments are handled on our blog.
Greetings,
We’ve upgraded the commenting
procedure within the blogging application we use (GoDaddy.com ’s
Quick Blogcast) to more effectively counter comment spam.
The first time we receive a comment
from an email address unknown to Quick Blogcast, we issue an email
asking the sender to confirm their address before passing the comment
along. Once the email address has been confirmed, the comment will
display to the owner.
This is not a retroactive measure, so if you’ve already posted to any of our blogs with your mail address, please be on the lookout for this confirmation.
I set up a blog for one of my clients; and, today she received 10 spam reponse attempts in her approval box. Are you able to help us stop those before they submit them? Thanks, Terri
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Terri,
This may be better dealt with over at the blogcast blog, onlinequickblog.com , but since It's going to be me answering it over there too let's just keep it here. This depends on what type of spam this is. Trackback spam or comment spam. The sad fact is that the majority > 90% of trackbacks are spam. For comment spam we send each person a mail the first time they leave a comment asking them to click a link to prove that it's a human but there's no adequate defense against people sitting and typing in unwanted comments ( we also restrict the number that can be made)
Without knowing the blog or the nature of the comments there's really not much info I can give you on the best strategy to reduce exposure to these.
Regards
John
OPF Team
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