Saturday, December 2, 2006

SPAM @ MoBlog Comments

Imagine receiving more than thirteen spam comments within a few days for a blog entry with people selling clothes and watches to pharmaceutical products and viagra, and there is NO WAY to stop it because MoBlog does NOT have a function to disable Guest's comment!

Moblog's Spam
I am getting very frustrated blogging at Moblog because of endless spam at comments!

From my observation, it appears the spammer may have used a computer program to search for blogs with keywords like 'christmas' or 'thanksgiving' to target their ads via a script, which automatically places their comments in blogs. The script is generated over and over again without the spammer having to lift a finger, and as victims, we can only painstakingly remove them one by one on a regular basis, unless someone place them on the block list. Sadly in this case, the spammer users the 'Guest' account to comment, so there is no way to block the sender specifically. This method of flooding ads on blogs' comments is known as auto-spam bots by the techies.

I have begged Moblog Support to do something about it, but they simply thanked me for the feedback and said they will look into having the solution in the next version. Last I remember when Moblog Support tells me they will include feature like 'Comic Sans MS' font in the next release, it was about a year ago and till this day, I am still waiting for it to happen.

When I begged them a second time for a current workaround, their reply was:

As much as we feel your frustration of being continually spammed by bots, we sadly cannot lend immediate assistance. If you find that only one of your blogs is being bombarded by spam, we advise you to delete that blog and create new entry. Because thus far, you are the only one who has complaints about excessive spam comments.

I am not sure whether I will be staying with Moblog anymore, considering the problems I am facing now. Hope they will do something soon.

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