Jack Yan

Vox sploggers are back

Looks like there are new IP addresses that the sploggers are exploiting Vox from. If you go to ‘Explore Vox’, you will probably find that splogs, again, outnumber legitimate posts by a substantial amount. I have suggested to Vox that surely a CAPTCHA method could prevent this. The latest report (not in text, as it will be linked) that I just sent was this—and this is just from a single page of featured posts on Vox:

Vox sploggers are back
Vox sploggers are back
   And in ‘Recent posts’ they have totally taken over:
Vox sploggers are back—recent posts
Vox sploggers are back—recent posts
PS.: I worked out from ‘Explore Vox’ that splog posts are entering the system at a rate of around 50 per minute.

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w|shepherd

Not good,

guess I am not so smart; dont understand why people do this, I don't understand how these spam people make money, what is the point...?

I've been getting them on one site, sadly, I thought it was just my content.

Jack Yan
It’s not so much driven by a desire to make money from the spam, but to create so many links to their sites that they get raised in search engine listings, fooling people to buy from them. The techniques do not work that well: I think most netizens can spot the fake sites from weird URLs. The other motive, if the Russian and Red Chinese states are indeed behind some of this, is to frustrate the free trade and speech of democratic countries.
w|shepherd

Jack,

"Frustrate the free trade and speech of democratic countries" thats what I've been thinking.

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