Adam Kalsey has called bloggers to arms with his Comment Spam Manifesto. Weblogs need not go the same way as Usenet and email. By and large, we bloggers have complete control of our sites, and being a more technically savvy bunch than the average news or email user, we’re ready and willing to fight back.
It boils down to this: my blog is a place where I can express my opinions and display links to sites that I find interesting. I provide comment space here for the few people who want to add their voices to mine and create dialog about topics that I find interesting. Notice that there’s no provision in that description for people to hawk their wares on my site or use it to improve their PageRank on Google.
Don’t even think that spamming here will get you anything other than rapid retaliation. The word is spreading through the blogging community, and eventually there won’t be an ISP who will host you or a product manufacturer who will use you for advertising. Your days are numbered with very small digits.
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Blog Spam
This seems to be the day for people griping about spam in blog comments. I haven’t been hit yet, but I’ve seen a lot of attempts to access cgi-bin/mt/mt-comments.cgi. I guess I’m glad that I didn’t install MT in cgi-bin. In general, most of these attem…