Spammers are hereby put on notice. Your comments are not welcome. If the purpose behind your comment is to advertise yourself, your Web site, or a product that you are affiliated with, that comment is spam and will not be tolerated.
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You can move to a new host, find a new ISP, or sign up for a different affiliate plan. The end result will be the same. Each time you rise out of the muck we will strike you down and send you back to the hole you crawled out of.
In September we wrote about problems with then recently proposed solutions for stopping comment spam. Adam Kalsey wrote yesterday about getting spammer's accounts cancelled. Add this to the list of pain-in-the-ass solutions. We can delete comments, ban IPs, and report abusers, but there will always be new comments, new IPs, and new abusers. There currently exists no accessible and consistent automated solution.
Adam's manifesto is optimistic. But will we prevail? There certainly exists a point at which spammers will no longer see benefit in jumping the hurdles webloggers erect. But, let's face it, webloggers are in danger of reaching a similar point. How many hurdles will we watch the spammers leap before we lose heart? Adam's manifesto is a positive indication of the community's resolve. Time will reveal who gives up first.