Archive for the ‘Spam’ Category

Do-follow or no-follow? is it important which you choose, as long as you are open about it? I’ve made changes to this blog that are more extreme than either choice in the hope that it will help with the debate.
What have I done? I have removed the links from commenters’ names altogether.
You read that right. [...]

Lots of people are talking about turning off Akismet for a day to see how much work it actually does. I think that’s mental!
I am inclined to think that it would be better to use an altered version with some kind of logging function so you get the stats without having to spend 24-36 hours [...]

Since I started this blog I have been getting trackbacks from dubious sources, blogs that are clearly ripping off my content. I have also had trackbacks from blogs ripping off the content of other blogs that linked to me. Lorelle has written about these new kinds of spammers, it is clearly a problem.
One of the [...]