Comments on: How to Deal with Trolls, Spammers & Sock Puppets

By: Russell Sugarman

Russell Sugarman — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:07:16 +0000

Excellent article. The part about colors was interesting. But I think you have to treat color schemes on a case-by-case scenario. As suggested, there are lots of examples where colors could be made more vibrant with contrasting backgrounds or bright titles to brighten things up. very great

By: icq

icq — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:14:31 +0000

I dont moderate my comments. I have seen where people just left there links but I dont pay too much mind until it gets out of control. I am sure there are many tools bloggers use to crack down on spammers

By: CultureMob.com

CultureMob.com — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:36:34 +0000

I definitely moderate comments- but if someone writes a nasty one that is just bad (but no racism, sexism, etc.) then I will leave it up so people can see what a jerk the commenter is.

By: Natalie

Natalie — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:56:54 +0000

I don’t moderate comments but I have been stalked by a blogger for more than 2.5 years and they have been successfully prosecuted, albeit because she stalked a number of us, and in particular one high profile blogger who they hung the case on. When I say stalking, I mean attempting to groom me with insincere adulation about my personal blog, then making demands about what I should write, then posting posts on their own blog and setting up other hate blogs, plus spamming with hateful and sometimes racist comments, then sending malicing, threatening emails, and posting comments and emailing various blogs making false claims, projecting their behaviour on me.They’re not supposed to contact or write about me for 5 years. But trolls are trolls. I have zero tolerance for anything that reeks of trolls and sock puppetry simply because if you keep feeding the monster, it grows. Cutting off their attention supply is a good start but with some people, like mine, they just find new avenues and the legal system is the only way. Thankfully the UK has some pretty strict laws regarding harassment although it is a longwinded process to silence the most serious and delusional of trolls. I don’t give a monkey’s if someone disagrees with me but I draw the line at anything that is personal, off topic, or racist. There is free speech…and there’s abusing it and taking the p*ss and contrary to opinion, the internet is not the wild west. As for spammers, Askimet.

By: Workplace harresment

Workplace harresment — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:53:09 +0000

Just ignore the comments. Atleast, they will tell people that you have many readers in your blog even if they are spam.

By: Goran Website

Goran Website — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:10:18 +0000

Being such a popular blog that you are, It is expected to receive tons of spam. That’s when you employ a proper team to just deal with that because I would lose my mind if I had to do the cleaning myself.

By: Goran Website

Goran Website — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:02:41 +0000

I was asking myself the very same question.