What's beyond comment spam?
Posted by unbrand on 2 February 2005 | 3 Comments
You know, I have to tip my hat to the spammers. These asshats started figuring out that comments were being locked down on blogs, so what’s next? Trackback! I got swarmed today with dozens of trackback spams. About the only thing I could do was disable trackbacks and pingbacks by executing the following SQL:
update wp_posts set ping_status = 'closed';
So how far away is this from just posting some plaintext as .html? Well, comments are still good, but no trackbacks/pingbacks seriously cuts into the power of blogs. Ouch.
The author of Wordpress, Matt, has some good comments about the issue.
Update: The Register has a good interview with a real-life blog comment spammer. He lives in England and makes 7 figures.