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Re: MyBlogLog goes after spammers

Mathew — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:14:30 -0000

Thanks for the comment, Bradford. Your move certainly got a lot of attention. Just out of curiosity, did you get any negative feedback from the people you chose to use as an example?

Re: MyBlogLog goes after spammers

Bradford Knowlton — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 02:28:31 -0000

Hello,

I'm glad this weekend is over. I added the top 10 SEO's, and just as I expected, the two things I wanted to happen did. A) they blogged about it, B) it got fixed, much faster then if I just sent in a bug @ MBL e-mail. What I also proved, which I think most people know about MyBlogLog that is doesn't generate traffic. The two sites I promoted, wig-dig.com and seoadwords.com both received very little traffic boast from all hype.

Anyway, thanks for using the shot of the bloglog from Wig-Dig, looks cool.

Thanks,
Bradford Knowlton

Re: MyBlogLog goes after spammers

Robyn Tippins — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 18:23:24 -0000

It's fixed now. I'm amazed at the success they've had in pretty much ousting Gravatar as the standard.

Re: MyBlogLog goes after spammers

Mathew — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 18:13:38 -0000

I bet it was, Robyn :-)

And Engtech, I would agree -- from the sounds of it they are working hard on it.

Re: MyBlogLog goes after spammers

engtech — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:44:21 -0000

I really enjoy the service and I think it's a great idea to have a centralized avatar system like that.

If they thought about it they could easily compete with OpenID.

But I wish they were a little more security minded. They need to hire some good testers who break stuff like this before lunch.

Re: MyBlogLog goes after spammers

Robyn Tippins — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:14:44 -0000

Yeah, it was somewhat awkward LOL I'm a big fan of MBL, so I'm sure they'll work it all out.

Re: MyBlogLog goes after spammers

Steven Hodson — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:19:20 -0000

I got one of those co-author "requests" as well over the weekend. The delete button works really well since I figure if anyone was serious about the offer (job or otherwise) they would take the time to send a real email :)

Re: MyBlogLog goes after spammers

Mathew — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:10:53 -0000

Yeah, I agree Ryan -- not a huge deal to click the little X to get rid of those icons, but still a pain in the ass. And the co-author thing is also a potential hazard -- hopefully the MyBlogLog team will get that one taken care of soon.

Re: MyBlogLog goes after spammers

Ryan Coleman — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:50:58 -0000

I've noticed the spammers and got a co-author invite over the weekend. Kudos to MBL the "community" was gone by the time I received the email and went to the site wondering WTF?

As for spammers - I've just X'ed them off the list anytime I notice them, a pain but I peek at the MBL ticker periodically so not a big amount of work to simply click an "X", ideally MBL will figure out a way to suspend accounts if they register and quickly gather a large number of X's.