Fighting back with Low Life SpammerLike many bloggers I use the best Anti-Spam WordPress Plugin, Akismet. Akismet grabs most of the spam but we still need to scan the filtered spam just in case a legitimate comment is in there. I don’t know why but it bothers me more when I get comment spam from an idiot site or affiliate promoter than when I get hit by the spam bots but it does.


Back in June 2006 I setup LowLifeSpammer.com as a place to re-direct spammer’s URLs as a joke. It worked great for blogs and forums. I don’t know how effective it was but I had fun with it. Every now and then I would approve a spam comment but not until I changed the spammers website link to LowLifeSpammer.com. I didn’t do it too often because it would look as if I were trying to inflate the blog post comment numbers. Eventually I dropped the site when cutting back my work load.


Well, back by popular demand, kind of (New Comment Policy – You Want To Read This), I have resurrected LowLifeSpammer.com. It’s just a simple one page site where blog and forum owners can change their comment spam links to. Just to make a point or to have a little fun. It’s great to fight back a little.


comment spam example


Just a couple of notes: First, please be absolutely sure it is blog comment spam or forum post spam before editing the URL. Second, I recommend updating your Comment Policy to help cover yourself legally. Be sure you inform potential commenters that you reserve the right to edit the comment and/or links.


What do you think? Too strong? Like the idea?

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