Monday, March 14, 2005

Inductive Blacklisting?

It looks like someone is trying out some type of comment spam on AOL Journals.  Or was; it sounds like a straightforward Terms of Service violation and I'd expect it to get yanked quickly. 

Fortunately, Journals provides a way to both delete a comment and block the commenter's user id (screen name) from future comments to that Journal, which is handy in these situations.  But perhaps it doesn't go far enough.  Perhaps there should be an auto-blacklisting feature:  If enough different people comment-block a user id, perhaps it should be blocked from any further comments anywhere for a significant period of time.  It would at least slow down the spammers.

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