Comments on: How spam can destroy online communities

By: Christina

Christina — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:50:27 +0000

First impressions are very important – actually that’s one of the reasons I kept reading your article. I saw the picture and wondered “how bad can spammers be??”

By: Jieleah

Jieleah — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:00:00 +0000

Well, in my own experience i erase spam message. I think minimizing spam is really important. It helps you to maintain good conversation with people who have the same interest.

By: Smiley

Smiley — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:23:51 +0000

I use phpBB2 but thanks to a couple of mods I’ve never had an automated spam message, either. Not once. All a real person – and it’s pretty easy to spot these types. The idiots always sign up with an obviously fake e-mail address and their names are never very subtle. They usually get banned before they can even post their spam message!

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:30:39 +0000

I am happy with SMF software as it provides strong defense against SPAM both manual and automated. There are MODS in SMF that provide an even stronger protection. Most SPAM postings in our forum came from real person. I haven’t seen automated SPAM messages because they don’t succeed in breaking the walls.

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:28:53 +0000

It’s incredible how much spam can be a problem. You know the craziest thing is though, on many of my forums, I invite members to include their website in the signature but just keep it off the posts. What do they do? Instead they just blatantly post boring bla bla adverts which I have to end up deleting! Why can’t they just post normally and enjoy the benefit of having their link in their signature?

By: Max

Max — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:50:37 +0000

Spam is a curse, but once you reach a critical size, it can’t hurt you as fast and hard any more. Social Bookmarking sites are a prime example: Those who managed to grow without being flooded with spam are still around, many other shut down. On the other hand, it’s alot about motivating visitors and rewarding them for extra efforts, because only with a strong base of faithful members/users generating quality content, you can win the battle.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 05:18:28 +0000

Spam can destroy any site. I mean any site. Like if you see Myspace which is a well known site al over internet you will see that the are also facing big amount of spams and they are spending lots of money to stop it.

Not only these big sites are suffering, even small sites are lot suffering.

spam is a curse

By: John Walters

John Walters — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:09:54 +0000

People want quality content. Spammers do not give you that. One must have a quick and effective way of dealing with spammers. If they don’t the their community may be overrun and the legitimate users may begin to leave too.

John

By: sharon

sharon — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:51:28 +0000

yea almost every blog or message board I build gets slammed with spam and never any quality post its depressing

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:51:05 +0000

I run some blogs on how to prevent getting spammed and about provilus scam! The funny thing is that people still insist on spamming the How to prevent Spam articles! It gets really annoying at times, but constant moderation will fix it. As for dealing with spam on the website wordpress has Akismet and that really reduces the work that you have to do. Touch wood so far it has been very effective for me.