Tag Archives: Askimet
This post is a (also) test.
I am testing the pingback ability. (An anti-spam plugin was wrongfully blocking Midas Oracle, we are looking into this.) Sorry for this post.
Blogs use the wisdom of crowds to fight spammers.
Wired (page 4):
[...] Mullenweg thinks he has come up with a better approach. He got serious about fighting spam, he says, when his mother started to blog. “I went through the last hundred or so people who had pinged WordPress with comments and trackbacks, and it was all spam,” he says. “Mortgages and Viagra, pills [...]
On other blogs than Midas Oracle, the Askimet anti-spam technology actually blocks legitimate comments from honorable people, and, hence, blocks free speech on the Internet.
I am one of those “honorable people” who get caught in Askimet’s net. Any blog running Askimet will refuse any of my comments. I have never submitted any illegitimate comment, though.
It’s a big scandal.
Askimet = Shit.
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