Comments on: The war on splogs http://www.takingaim.co.uk/splogs/ Sun, 18 Mar 2007 22:33:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Anil http://www.takingaim.co.uk/splogs/comment-page-1/#comment-1608 Anil Wed, 06 Sep 2006 22:54:06 +0000 http://www.takingaim.co.uk/?p=315#comment-1608 I think you raise some good points, but I'd counter with the observation that many, many more splogs are hosted on services like Blogspot (which is free) or even on farms of Wordpress blogs than on TypePad. Essentially, it's not that anyone will have 100% prevention of splogs, but that we can afford to pay people to help maintain our community because there's a positive economic incentive for us to do so. In short, total prevention of the problem probably isn't practical. But effective management of it seems like a completely reasonable and attainable goal. And we've been unconflicted about being against link spam, which is something I'm pretty proud of. I wrote more about this <a href="http://www.dashes.com/anil/2006/09/06/news_flash_spam" rel="nofollow">on my blog today</a>. I think you raise some good points, but I’d counter with the observation that many, many more splogs are hosted on services like Blogspot (which is free) or even on farms of WordPress blogs than on TypePad. Essentially, it’s not that anyone will have 100% prevention of splogs, but that we can afford to pay people to help maintain our community because there’s a positive economic incentive for us to do so.

In short, total prevention of the problem probably isn’t practical. But effective management of it seems like a completely reasonable and attainable goal. And we’ve been unconflicted about being against link spam, which is something I’m pretty proud of. I wrote more about this on my blog today.

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