Another blog spam reducing suggestion
This came to me after another visit from out little blog spam pest (LBSP). The main point of much of LBSP's efforts seems to be a link building campain to boost SE rankings. Critical in this is the contents of the URL field. I think a good feature might be a URL blacklist table, where bloggers could report a comment on one of their own posts as spam, and have the URL added to the blacklist table.
Then, whenever a comment is posted to any blog, the URL is compared to the blacklist table. If they match, the comment is either not entered, or stashed in some reference table only admins can access (CYA). Additionally, the feature would also scan the subject or comments section for the offending URL and treat accordingly.
Combine this with some sort of CAPTCHA or human identification test, and it will make LBSPs work much harder to be the vermin they are.
Maintaining the blacklist table doesn't necessarily have to fall on the site admin's shoulders. Donny's busy enough. Maybe a dozen or so other bloggers would volunteer on a rotating basis to keep on top of the blacklist. I'm game.
It would be nice also if we could communicate the black list to Google also, and they could drop the offendnig URLs from their index. That would make the whole exercise fruitless (but increase the importance of someone watching the black list).
Comment: re: Those (not so) random comments (via Richard Dudley)
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re: Those (not so) random comments
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