Jan 16
The future of comments
2004 at 08.39 am posted by Veerle Pieters
It’s bad enough that my mailbox of Entourage is filled with spam everyday but now we also have to be careful with the option of comments on blog’s like mine. What happened is that someone wrote an automated comment spammer for Movable Type. I am not using Movable Type so maybe I am still safe for now since my blog is powered by pMachine.
pMachine has some measures build in to prevent such a thing but still the thought that spammers are taking this route isn’t a happy one. It would be a shame if all popular blog’s are disabling there comments since that’s a part what makes them attractive in the first place.
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I havent been hit by them yet...and i hope I never am. That would really suck.
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I know this is an old post, but hope you see it anyway....
Check out popfile.sf.net (I am not affliated, only a fan ... also mentioned popfile recently in another post). It is based on the growing popularity of Bayesian filters. And it started in 2003, so maybe it helped the popularity of Bayesian filters?
I am confident that Bayesian filters could also help check user comments too. Maybe that fictional filter could clear good posts, flag for approval the borderline posts, and reject the truly bad posts. Something you are not up to, but maybe the sf crowd could be persuaded?
Either way, Bayesian is sound and I rely heavily on it. My trained filter accurately classifies 99.5+% of my emails.