The Human Comment Spam Dilemma

July 13th, 2007 at 7:47 pm (Articles, Miscellaneous, Take)

trailing from BlogHerald writer Lorelle VanFossen and Liz Strauss of Successful (and Outstanding) Blog(gers)…

I know this is not even remotely related to anime and all, but still, it’s an interesting issue to ponder on. We have anime blogs to maintain, right? :)

The idea is that you hire and pay this company to find “blogs within your target market” and their hired “commenters” will read the blog post and comment as if they were you, leaving a link to your blog in he comment form and/or comment signature.
I guess the whole issue with this “human comment spam” problem is the fact that “people are paid to spam, and that hurts the integrity of people as responsible sharers of electronic information”.

I agree with Ms. VanFossen that this should be eradicated at the source. Question is, at this point, how are you capable of dealing with the problem that affects a medium of communication that has already raised eyebrows among the “mainstream” crowd?

So far, all I do is hold on comments for moderation and see if the people who leave comments are even “trustworthy” (I guess even that too can be arbitrary) to place their comments on my blog, my personal space on the Web.

How about you, guys? How do you handle this?

3 Comments

  1. lanie-emon said,

    July 14, 2007 at 6:51 pm

    I handle it as you would have done it. I guess there not much option there.

  2. j.valdez said,

    July 16, 2007 at 5:47 am

    I use blogger.com. So my method of handling it is making it difficult to comment for everybody :)

  3. Ronin AnimeLover said,

    July 16, 2007 at 11:42 am

    j.valdez Said:

    I use blogger.com. So my method of handling it is making it difficult to comment for everybody :)
    Like the captcha function? Do know that no-good hackers can bypass that. :S

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