477 google results proving people don’t block blogspam
I got that exact quote today in a comment. I looked into it before marking it as spam. However, at least 477 others didn’t. This brings up an interesting idea: distributed “you got spammed” e-mail announcements. We could use the google API or something similar to create something similar to a “phonebank”, but of blogs that have been spammed. Then, users could go in, choose to “contact” someone, and do so. Either mark the person as “contacted”, or if they don’t have a way to contact them on the blog, perhaps leave a comment saying a certain previous comment was spam (on the same spammed post) and mark it as “commented”. This could be a pretty interesting guerilla warfare technique against spam. And of course, you don’t have to get every piece of spam on the internet, that’s not the goal, the goal is to let people know that they are susceptible to spam and how to resolve their spam issue. Getting more people to accept the cure (especially when they’re on a “directory of wordpress blogs”, and therefore all could be using akismet or defensio) would mean less people to contact in the database in the future, and less spam on the Google. End result: it becomes harder to spam, and more costly.
