Comment spam and my OpenPublish presentation
August 01, 2006 01:01 (Sydney Australia)
There’s been a bit of comment spam on here lately. Previously I was checking for certain keywords and how many URLs were specified in the body, but I’ve just replaced that with Akismet integration, thanks to Gav’s whinging that my comments feed has been spamalicious as of late.
Registering for and integrating Akismet, giving it a quick test and redeploying toolmantim.com took a whole 31 minutes. How’s that for RAD! I stole the Akismet Ruby API from typo’s version of David Czarnecki’s Akismet class. Thanks Tobi and David!
Last Thursday I gave a talk at OpenPublish, “Putting content in user’s hands,” where I tried to ask what ideas, techniques and tools from the Web 2.0 community can we look at repurposing for non-web apps (i.e. large content-driven sites). If you want to check it out I’ve added the PDF to the aviditybytes resources page.
Comments
Gav
I’m such a whinger! Nice work tho… 31 minutes is not bad going.
Tim Lucas
Just testing out this comment spam thing for myself…
Tim Lucas
Only time will tell.
Anonymous
This site is one of the best I have ever seen, wish I had one like this.
Moo
My shitty little blog site got spammed recently. I found the spam quite positive and most of the time the only comment i got. Bring it on I say
Tim Lucas
Why thank you sincere Anonymous ;)
More spam for moo. So why don’t you put your shitty little blog site in the website field when leaving a comment? At least then maybe we can get some more shitty blog spam over this way.
Turns out Akismet isn’t good enough to catch em all… i’ve added a bit of my own secret sauce to the recipe. Be careful spammers, I’m reporting any I catch to akismet too!
Tim Lucas
Just testing…
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