One thing WL Spaces team needing to start
Windows Live Spaces team did a lot of great work over it’s social networking service or blogging system. One of previous hot topic over WL Spaces should considering as blog or not. It fade after the time but there are blogging functions (under a certain definition) exist in WL Spaces. I am interesting especially on ”trackback system”.
Why? is there anything special? No, nothing special but it acting as place for trackback spamming. With honor I own three spaces for different reasons. All of them never get any spam comments. I geuss, posting spam comment is time consuming and less efficiency. The most effective way is using trackback system. Run once and they big number of result.
The trend I noticed from three of my spaces is first send a testing trackback. If it work then following with real spam trackback. The most spam I got from space is clothing advertisement and I got a lot of them daily. I don’t know if WL Spaces team have some records or statistic on this area. WL Spaces itself, it’s backend system lack of spamming filter over trackbacking. I don’t know if it working behind screen. Together with lack of effective way (you may call ease of use) for comment/trackback management. What they missed is bulk delete. If user need to delete ten spam they need to did it one by one. The result? more than 20 clicks before get it done.
Today I got first spam on this blog but Wordpress with plug-ins blocked it and asking me to approve. The spam is viagra ads (trust me something I do not need it, I can perform great work!). Oh, I got 20+ Vigra thing in unknown account on Gmail.
WL Space team should consider in this area before trackback spam is greater and become issue for the next hot topic. It’s means WL Spaces should have some spam filter (for trackback), block them or warn user if the system caught some. Plus, improve the way to manage comment/trackback, give ability for bulk delete. I think is could help a lot. Or you may have some other great ideas please let me learn.
January 7th, 2007 at 03:04
Spam is not problem in Live Spaces if you only admit trackback of Live Spaces.
It is not the best solution, but it solves the problem
In this post you can see as it is solved. You do not receive anything of Spam.
A greeting
http://mmadrigal.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!1989B873A580CA12!22363.entry
January 7th, 2007 at 10:28
Thank you, mmadrigal.
Your solution is not so bad. What I was thinking is a solution for average people not a techgy or greek. In the meantime your solution will help me a lot.
Thanks for greeting