Comment Policy
Published by Yazad Jal October 26th, 2004 in About MeHere’s the spanking new comment policy for AnarCapLib. With a little help from the resident webguru, you’d see it whenever you are about to comment!
Comments are welcome and you are free to disagree with what’s posted.
However, please remember that you are a guest on private property. Abusive comments will be erased and your IP banned.
Please be clear and as brief as possible. Link to an article, do not cut paste the whole damn 5,000 words here.
No naked URL’s — they screw up the sidebar at times. Please use html to create links. If you use Internet Explorer, you’d notice a few icons on the right hand corner of the comment box which will help you create the html code.
For users of Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, Mac, Linux etc, these cute push buttons are not available. (not my fault — catch some coder, I’m only a newbie!)
But I am an enterprising newbie and for others like me, I shall share my limited knowledge on html coding.
<b>This is how you bold text</b>
<i>This is how you italicise text</i>
<blockquote>This helps you indent and border a quote. Stands apart!</blockquote>
Remember to close every open tag with a slash: <tag> close every tag! </tag> Otherwise html will slash back (or if it is kind, simply dissappear)!
For links the code is a little longer, but easy enough.
<a href=”http://www.your_link_or_URL_here.com“>Link text or description here</a>
Drop in your real email ID. We have activated Movable Type’s anti spambot email protection. If you’re still scared of spammers, use the following format myemailNOSPAM@domain.com. The NOSPAM part can be easily removed by humans.
At times I may make changes to your comment largely for stylistic reasons (i.e converting a naked URL). I will always say so in the comment itself and would like to email you personally as well.
Thanks for the tips Yazad. Two comments
1] Adding NOSPAM in the email address does not block more sophisticated email address trawlers which can as easily parse out NOSPAM from an email address.
2] I noticed that you have been getting comment spammed of late. Have you considered using a Human Verifier? The PHP Nuke site that I host uses one which prevents non-humans entities from comment spamming.
CK, the ‘human verifier’ that you refer to is called a ‘captcha’ which stands for ‘Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart’. Its a good way to block spamming bots. But its a horror as far as accessibility is concerned.
Moreover, captchas have proved to be ineffective against spamming too! Spammers are an ingenious lot, you know!
I read somewhere that Spammers are hiring people in India whose only job it is to sit and type in the numbers/letters that captcha requires - thereby settng up thousands of hotmail/yahoo accounts each day and also probably getting on blogs and spamming.
Just out of curiosity - has anybody who reads this blog ever bought anything from a spam message? I am referring to genuine spam - not malicious phishing or Nigerian scams - but the sort that legitamate (well almost) companies send out hoping you’ll buy their products? Basically advertizing from small business’ trying to take on the P&Gs with their multi-million $ advertizing budget.
Spam is spam is spam. There is no legitimacy to it. But I’m sure people are tempted by those online offers! ;-)
As far as spammers and captchas are concerned, as I said, spammers are an ingenious lot. They no longer need to recruit humans to create hundreds of yahoo or hotmail accounts. What they do is to set up a website that offers some irresistible offer, say free porn. But they require people to register themselves for that offer. So a registration form is presented to the person who’s tempted by their offer. In the background the spammer’s website starts the registration process for a webmail account. So this mail registration page presents the spamming website with a captcha. The spamming website in turn shows this captcha to the person who’s trying to register on their site (for porn). This person deciphers the captcha word or number and this is in turn used by the spamming website to complete the registration process for the webmail account. ;-)
Just out of curiosity - has anybody who reads this blog ever bought anything from a spam message?
No. We’re not that stupid. Besides, I rarely get to see any spam these days because my three levels of spam filtering get rid of 99% of the spam.
I am planning to implement a captcha eventually, but right now, there isn’t much comment spam on this site thanks to both MT-Blacklist as well as some minor code hacks I put in. CK, what gives you the impression that comment spam is really hitting this site?
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