Tag Archives: Askimet

This post is a (also) test.

Posted on June 11, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

I am testing the pingback ability. (An anti-spam plugin was wrongfully blocking Midas Oracle, we are looking into this.) Sorry for this post.

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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.

Posted on December 13, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

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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Blogs use the wisdom of crowds to fight spammers.

Posted on November 15, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

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 … Continue reading →

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