Disqus - Latest Comments for Vinny

Re: No-Follow Enabled On WordPress Plugin v2.04

Vinny — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:51:07 -0000

Sorry, but that's just not good enough. All No Follow does is stop Google and others from following a link during indexing, but it does absolutely nothing to stop the spammers from leaving comments, does nothing to get the "search climbers" off disqus, and does nothing to solve the problem.

It solves the goal, but a spammer doesn't care if No Follow is on or in effect because they're not checking. They won't benefit in the long run, but that won't stop them from spamming the hell out of your blog in the first place.

Secondly, turning on No Follow only hurts legitimate linkers and commenters who give linky love to their posts or to other posts. In other words, the net effect is an ineffective spam stopper that hurts legitimate users who should benefit from followed links.

You guys really need to get your heads on straight and fix the spam issues. So far I see a lot of ancillary stuff and a lot of fixes for things that aren't at the heart of the problem (including Facebook connect? Come on!).

I liked disqus a lot in the time I had it installed (I even would've paid for a premium version if it were offered!), but at the rate you guys are going, I'm quite glad it's gone. Your non-reaction to a huge problem has convinced me that I'm better off keeping control of my comments in my hands on my server with Akismet which, incidentally, is catching the spam that Disqus was letting through.

Re: Regarding The Recent Spam

Vinny — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:42:59 -0000

The worst part of it is that these comment spammers are using registered "legit" Disqus accounts across multiple blogs and spamming the hell out of Disqus. If I flag a user, and you flag a user and someone else flags a user, then all of their respective comments should be removed as spam pending moderator approval. End of story.

I've removed Disqus until this gets figured out and it really annoys me because there are so many reasons to like it, but I don't want my site plagued with spam, particularly spam that Akismet catches in one second.

Re: Regarding The Recent Spam

Vinny — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:42:59 -0000

Re: Regarding The Recent Spam

Vinny — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:42:59 -0000

Re: Regarding The Recent Spam

Vinny — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 04:41:20 -0000

The problem is that a lot of these users are just parading around and hitting multiple sites even with their Disqus logins. What Disqus needs is a way to flag users for review by Disqus this way if someone else catches a spammer, their comments move into the spam queue across the board. This is one benefit made possible by the fact that Disqus is cross-site.

I'm seriously considering moving back to Wordpress' default comments simply because Disqus' comment spam feature is so anemic. It doesn't catch a lot and doesn't allow features you would expect from a networked system.

Re: Regarding The Recent Spam

Vinny — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:41:20 -0000

Re: No-Follow Enabled On WordPress Plugin v2.04

Vinny — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:51:07 -0000

Re: Forklift: The Second Coming of FTP Greatness?

Vinny — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:51:49 -0000

Don't reach for your credit card that fast. Transmit does #2 and #3, so unless #1 is really important to you, don't bother ;-)

Re: Why I said “mugnormous” the other day

Vinny — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 08:55:12 -0000

Smugmug can have the greatest UI in the world, but that won't put their new service out there ahead of Flickr. What Flickr has is mindshare and community. Feature wise, sites like Zooomr are every bit as good as Flickr (although weaker in certain areas, they do have some neat features that Flickr doesn't) but it can't gain any traction against the monster that is Flickr. Oh yeah, and my friends aren't there.

Kinda like Facebook. I like Facebook because my actual real-world friends are on there. I could use something like Virb which slays it as far as UI and doesn't have all the annoying apps that really serve no function anyway, but then I'd be the sound of one hand clapping.

I wish the Smugmug guys all the best. The regular service never really worked for me, so hopefully they up their game and do well.