All of the major blog software companies have released today (or are releasing shortly) plug-ins or upgrades to allow your blog software of choice to utiise this grea new feature as well.
Ok...while it still won't stop me from screening all of the comments that i get to this blog, and the other blogs i run, but its a great step in the right direction...well done guys and gals...nice to see that we can all work together when it matters :)
Oh yeah...and now we all know why Dave was so happy :)
Posted by Mick (SplaTT) Stanic at January 19, 2005 3:06 PM
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Problem is, that they will still be trying to place their comments in blogs - as people read comments and click on them.
My blogs have been "discovered" by a spammer, useful sounds could be updated to a "based on link count" prevention but for the other three blogs I have made some modifications and now am stuck with rewriting them deep inside the code of the tool.
Throughout all those spam attacks I found it rather scary to see which host they are all coming from; the connections indicate trojans and viruses doing the attacks. :(
We will have to work together otherwise we loose this battle; E-Mail is already lost for communications beside really trusted users.
So when i look at all this, Usenet in the early days with distributions come to mind and the reinventing ot Usenet II with 'feeded only if it is a sound site" - perhaps we will see a revival of 'added only if trusted person'? Or perhaps not only 'get no google juice' but a 'this comment has been rated automatically untrusted, click only if you are stupid'?
Comments automatically added if trusted signature is available? (Gives me headache to see that when hearing this most people start with 'oh yes, a centralized system, great, typekey and so!'.)
Blogs work because when I look at your site I am fairly sure it is you and your work. Once starting to trust in your knowledgde / abilities, I know that I can trust links from you, otherwise you would loose credibility.
There are other people you trust so chances are I might trust them too, and if you are a special person, I would automatically add them to my web of trust. So what does this remind me of? PGP. PGP has proven to be a working woven decentralized net of trust. Usenet distribution worked on the peering site, because it was net of trust and distributed between known peers.
There where problems on the content site; Usenet II tried to take care of that but failed because of personal egos and not enough community sense.
Time for some solution building on the models we know worked and improve them for a new world / society? :)
Posted by: Nicole Simon at January 19, 2005 8:53 PM