Spammers mess up BusinessWorld’s About Us page
Just saw this – a spammer has added his rubbish to BusinessWorld site’s About Us Page.
Hope someone there sees it and deletes the links to ‘inappropriate’ sites!
This is one problem with everyone who runs a site. If you allow unmoderated commenting, sooner or later it becomes a bloody nuisance. And moderation can be pretty taxing. Most of the popular CMSs have built in spam prevention, to identify spam by submitted text or links, or by IP addresses. WordPress has Akismet spam protection built in. Or you can always opt for comment moderation.
BW was caught out here because:
1) Their comments section allowed HTML – if it is not, most spammers would go away.
2) No moderation. No moderation, along with HTML capability, is asking for trouble.
There’s a lesson there, guys. (And someone please tell BW!)
