OS Needs to Address the Invasion of the
OS Needs to Address the Invasion of the Comment Spam Bots
I have been a member of Open Salon since the beta,vans shoes sale, and that i really enjoy blogging and reading there. I've seen the different challenges the community has faced,
and now I want to bring your attention to the latest thing plaguing our little community: comment spam bots.
He/she has registered an account without any aim of posting. Instead, as you look at this person's recent comments you will find that they're
copy-pasting exactly the same spam into various comments round the site.
This really is rapidly becoming an epidemic. 50% of the comments on my small latest post were actually spam bots. I'm trying to delete them as fast as
they are,vans outlet, but it is hard to catch those that appear in older posts. To research the site - they are on nearly every post these
days.
Here's what you must do to be able to help combat this issue:
1) Possess a better system for users to flag accounts suspected as spam bots. Currently you are able to only flag problematic posts,roger vivier heels, not accounts. Have a dedicated admin to take care of these accounts, someone who can rapidly act to ban these
accounts as they appear. It's intolerable these accounts remain active days after their obvious spam patterns emerge.
2) Consider changing the code on the site to detect individuals who post comments in suspicious patterns - rapidly commenting on multiple posts at any
given time,roger vivier sandals, obvious copy-paste patterns in their recent comments. Ban users not only by username, but by Ip too.
3) Give users better control in their "Manage Comments" area of their profile. Currently when I log on, I'm able to only begin to see the following
headings on the bottom: Date, Post,roger vivier online, Comment. I would like an additional column for "Poster Name",roger vivier shoes, in order to easily weed out the suspicious looking people (like our friend I associated with above).
3a) Also, consider allowing the consumer to grow the full comment. The newest tactic by the spam bots involves investing in 2-3 lines of legitimate
looking commentary,Roger vivier, followed by links to possibly malicious sites. For example,roger vivier pumps, the commenter might write,roger vivier boots, "Great article! I found it very informative. Go here to buy cheap shoes ". When browsing my "Manage Comments"
section, it's hard to choose which surveys are legit and which aren't,roger vivier heels, because I only see those first 6-7 words.
It is vitally important that OS addresses this problem ASAP. Area of the reason OS is really an excellent place to blog happens because we now have
such a great community of members who engage in thoughtful debates in the comments sections of posts. The spam bots threaten to overwhelm that
dialogue making the website less pleasant to go to. I hope you folks are putting a plan in position to cope with this.
Thanks,Consider changing the code on the website to detect people who post comments in suspicious patterns - rapidly commenting on multiple posts at
any given time, obvious copy-paste patterns within their recent comments.
I'd also add the possibility of having OS software detect the inclusion of specific flagged sites in comments. It might simply dump such comments
before they appear.
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