Whats Going On With The Fight Against Blog Spam?

Posted on August 22, 2005
Filed Under Announcements, Blogs, Spam, Technology and Web 2.0

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What’s all the fuss about Blogger.com and other free blogging services?

Well there is talk of banning such free blog site from the major blog search engine directories (MSN, IceRocket and others) due to the increasing levels of Blog Spam from some users. This is not good news for legitimate blog users who will also be excluded regardless of their good integrity.

The Splog Reporter set up by Frank Gruber aims to encourage blog owners to report "Splog" (Blog Spam) on their new site, as of August 2005.

I have to agree with Toivo Lainevool about how easy the Splog Reporter’s "Report A Splog" web form could be high jacked by unscrupulous Spambot programs and ruthless people who may report legitimate web sites just for the fun of it. On the other hand I welcome any person or organization working to fight against Spam.

Maybe with a lot of feedback Frank will be able to develop this site into something extraordinary. This is a mammoth task to undertake and with time should prove to be a huge success in the online community.

You can read more about the attack of Splog Mark Cuban’s blog.

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5 Responses to “Whats Going On With The Fight Against Blog Spam?”

Jeff on August 23rd, 2005 1:54 am

Hi, I recently signed on with Frank with SplogReporter.com. We realize all the pros and cons of the system currently. We took a big step as of this weekend to upgrade the system and it will only get better. We are currently collected URLs or reported splogs. We are still developing the methodologies to parse the suspected splog and determine if it is indeed a splog.

Just because a site gets submitted does not mean it is a splog and does not automatically get marked as such. We are being very cautious in how we approach this so good blogs do not get blocked. Please visit the site and let us know how you think we can improve this service.

The reason I point this out is so people don’t think just because you submit a “splog” to the site, it is not automatically blacklisted. We don’t want people to think their legitimate blog will get flagged as splog.
Liz on October 24th, 2005 4:31 pm

Sounds like they are making the effort to create a worthy service, that will not indiscrimineately mark a blog as a ’splog.’ I just wish I could report some of the advertisers that intrude my life everyday as ’splad’.
FunnyGuy on January 8th, 2007 11:55 am

Personally I cannot see a future without Spam,

whether via email or blogs!

Every day more and more people hear about how they can log onto the internet and MAKE MONEY just by sending emails.

Now that blogs RULE!

People of course want to use the commenting system to get their message accross.

I really hate these guys wo ruin it for us hard working webmaster
Frankxc on January 31st, 2007 5:43 am

Great design, useful info!This resourse is great!Keep it up!With the best regards!
Frank
Nancy P Redford on February 7th, 2007 10:34 am

Hey funny guy, cheer up!

I know Spam will never be erradicated completely BUT we must not give our efforts.

Keep your chin up

-Nancy