Thanks For The Post!
Posted by Nick O'Neill on November 10th, 2009 3:29 PM
Every morning I wake up and click through my blackberry to see what messages I’ve received. For the most part, I don’t receive anything important between 2 AM and 8 AM but there are still large numbers of messages that I sift through. The most annoying of those messages are the night time spam comments on this blog. Disqus does an absolutely horrendous job at filtering out spam which means 10 to 15 minutes of my morning everyday are spent sifting through spam.
All of the spam comments follow the same format. Most often a user will say something to the extent of “Thanks for the post!” with a link to their site and some keyword that they’d like to have indexed by the search engines. There’s no doubt the spammers are using automated systems as they all tend to take place within seconds of each other. I’ve spoken to numerous people who say that this process is also part of their normal routine, which is why I know the system is broken.
Wordpress already does a great job at blocking spam so why would a use another system when it does a worse job? The only conclusion I can come up with is that I won’t continue to use it. If the only service that your company provides is commenting on blogs, you better do an amazing job at it. Honestly, no matter what service your company provides, you better do an amazing job at it.
What I’m trying to figure out is whether or not everybody else has the same problem. Why on earth should I have to have my inbox spammed with messages every morning, requiring me to manually reply to each message with the word “Spam” to delete them? Oh and if you were hoping for this post to provide insight, you’ll be seriously disappointed … you’ll have to wait for the next post for that one!
Do you have the same issue with Disqus and other external commenting systems?
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My guess is that it's just something that comes with larger amounts of traffic, and there's nothing that can be done to stop it. I would say that maybe Blogger has figured it out, but I don't know what it'd be like on a site that gets tons of traffic.
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So to answer your question - let the company that does the great job do it's job (Wordpress) and then let another company provide the extras but not supplant the core service (e.g. using Disqus instead of Wordpress for your spam filtering).
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Are these spam messages being marked as spam? Feel free to shoot me an email help@disqus.com and we'll talk it out.
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but I wont found a single wat to eradicate all the spams
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