The Blogosphere is slowly drowning in spam comments, writes news.com. Don't I know it. At least four times a week I have to remove a comment advertising porn or gambling from this blog.
And that's just my humble publishing space. Slightly more popular blogs like Boing Boing ;-) has had to totally remove the comment function, mainly because of an explosion in junk comments. While Robert Scoble's Scobleizer blog manages to round up 100 spam comments a day.
While there are filters and other software to combat the spam, it remains a problem for both blog owners and readers.
»It reminds me of visible smog, because it obscures what you want to be looking at. You have to waste brain cycles to filter it out,« says Mark Frauenfelder, co-editor of Boing Boing to the techie news site.
Why don't spammers understand that by posting irrelevant stuff on a blog, they annoy the readers -- thereby alienating the very customers they want to sell their product to? In fact it is somewhat comparable to a grocer hitting people in the head with a six pack of beer in order for them to notice and buy the damn thing.
