NickMashable & Daily Telegraph UGC Spam May Invite Trouble Too
I agree with you Shaun – moderation isn’t difficult, and it works. We have a phpBB Forum (http://www.pimlico-flats.co.uk/forum/ if anyone wants to come & join in, a number of eBay, & eCommerce members, not just renting flats, anyway enough of that) and we have a dedicated member who wakes up early every morning and cleans the board of the spam. No one else ever sees it.
Another technique we use is to regularly delete members who haven’t posted. Spammers use Bots to set up accounts, which then wait before spamming, we get pre-emptive.
Another technique is to edit the spam, replacing their links with our own adsense! Hehehe
Interestingly after having edited a spam to point out that 1 post might be acceptable, but 40 weren’t, we started getting single post spam. So the spam isn’t as automated as you would think.
Can I interest anyone in a London Flat over Christmas or New Year – only £600/week?
- Name
- Nick Parkin
- Web
- www.pimlico-flats.co.uk