bye-bye, Chinese spammers
Our free blog hosting platform is about to close its doors to China.
This sounds radical and stupid, since China looks like a dynamic market
with a lot of growth potential. That may be very true, but fact is that
since blogHi's day 1, about a year ago, we got not even one single serious blogger
from over there. On the contrary, all we received from China is a
strong and constant atention from spammers; a flood of spam and splogs.
It seems that there are some companies over there that make a business case from building worldwide spamming networks. What these companies do is infect any free web hosting website they can find with a matrix of so called search-engine-optimised blogs, which they interlink, and then use these web corpses to push clients websites on top of search engines. And if one thinks of the budget these companies raise from their clients; it's no wonder why the little John blogging about his life stands no chance competing with them.
This blog spamming techniques came recently under the blogosphere's attention. How effective the future anti-spam techniques will be is still left to be seen. At one level or another, right now, webmasters build firewalls and protection layers: blocking Chinese IP addresses.
We tried hard to keep up with the constant flood of spam, but now we had enough. For a while, we will block the entire Chinese IP Range; when things settle, we will start lifting the blockades one-by-one.
Please let us know your thoughts on this; we're all ears.
It seems that there are some companies over there that make a business case from building worldwide spamming networks. What these companies do is infect any free web hosting website they can find with a matrix of so called search-engine-optimised blogs, which they interlink, and then use these web corpses to push clients websites on top of search engines. And if one thinks of the budget these companies raise from their clients; it's no wonder why the little John blogging about his life stands no chance competing with them.
This blog spamming techniques came recently under the blogosphere's attention. How effective the future anti-spam techniques will be is still left to be seen. At one level or another, right now, webmasters build firewalls and protection layers: blocking Chinese IP addresses.
We tried hard to keep up with the constant flood of spam, but now we had enough. For a while, we will block the entire Chinese IP Range; when things settle, we will start lifting the blockades one-by-one.
Please let us know your thoughts on this; we're all ears.
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Comment by Elmers Brother— 2005/10/28 @ 02:49 AM — (Reply)
What we tried to do more recently was to recognize the character set the spammers use in their posts, and if the post contains many of the Traditional Chinese group; disallow links from the posts. This strategy worked for a while, but it was again not perfect.
Please rest assured that we do our best to avoid interfering with any regular blogHi usage. If you have any suggestions we are all ears
Comment by blog development— 2005/10/28 @ 09:05 AM — (Reply)
contact me via email, i know some techniques ..
Comment by mathias— 2005/10/28 @ 09:39 AM — (Reply)
Comment by Mark— 2005/12/12 @ 12:52 PM — (Reply)
Can you write a sample code to detect Chinese characters? So far we checked, it doesn't appear to be that simple.
Comment by blog development— 2005/12/12 @ 12:56 PM — (Reply)
Comment by MOS— 2006/05/12 @ 04:37 PM — (Reply)