On comment spam

I think, that the popularity of a weblog software is not the only reason for spammers to write applications to spam those weblogs. And in-popularity is no guarantee as well, as you can
see here: http://blog.borho.net/item_112.html

Martin developed his own weblog software - only used by himself ;)

With Nucleus, I don't even get one comment spam per month. But I had my old MT blog and my typepad blog spammed big-time.

>I would assume that once other weblog applications gain in popularity the spammers will target those platforms as well

that is why it's best to have many different blogging systems around. as long as nobody's controlling the market, nobody's an attractive target for spammers. the more known a blog cms gets, the more likely somebody is gonna code a spam-bot or whatever for it.

Heiko, as much as I understand your intention to think that, my impression is that this is not really the case. Of course, spammers target the largest installed base with the easiest posting scheme, so MT is an obvious target right now. Other tools may not make it that easy to automate spamming, so we'll see if you're right in a few months...

As Thorte pointed out, it really is as easy with any other tool. Even the tools you write yourself. Yes, distribution of different platforms will make the tasks more complex, but I fear not too complex for spammers.

I agree that it could be an illusion that moving to another tool actually stops spam. Especially, if that tool becomes popular because too many MT users are switching to it :-(

However, isnt the real question then how good all these tools are at fighting spam? And how fast they can react to new spam strategies? In the end, what decides is how good the support against spam is, because spam will happen anyway.

I agree that the weblogging software used doesn't make much of a dent in comment spam. I would argue that it depends on the content of the weblog in question. The more boring the content, the less likely is one to be spammed.

My own weblog almost never receives comment spam.

BTW, posting about sex in Lübeck is not a good anti-spam strategy.

spam-freie weblogs werden sich eh nicht durchsetzen.

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