| Re: Death to Link Spammers!
Exactly so, DogBoy. But it does not work!
Link spamming is a big business and there is professional link spamming software which claims to be able to automatically read and respond to the distorted text in captchas.
If link spamming were limited to people saying, "Come look at my cool website," (and the site is off topic) it might be annoying, but I could live with it. If the poster is on topic then it becomes a service. For example some of our members keep us up to date on the status of their websites.
However, link spamming is a business. Professional link spammers charge real money to a client to splatter links to the client's website across thousands or tens of thousands of sites that offer public posting. The spammer gets money and the site owner and users get to deal with the ugly problem. It's not much different than gang members tagging the side of someone's building--at least in terms of ugliness. Some sites are so hammered with link spam that the forum, or blog, or whatever becomes useless. The link spammer is not necessarily looking for site visitors to follow the link, but they are targeting the search engine spiders. Link spamming is sold on the basis that it will raise the client's page rank.
Sux, eh?
Scotty  |