CommonGate Spam Sighting! Plus Other Features...

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sleeper
sleeper posted on Sep 16th 2006 10:40AM; via commongate.com
CommonGate Spam Sighting!  Plus Other Features...

This is the first comment spam I've seen:
http://art.commongate.c...t#comments

Don't click on the links. Of course, I did click and it said "Server not found", but be safe and don't click.

I honestly do like that feature that allows non-registered users to leave comments. I suppose those 'CAPTCHA' technology won't be far behind? If you're not familiar with this, Captcha asks you to key in the message in an image (most blog or digg asks to verify if you're human and not robotic spammers).

I know that would be annoying if you had to key in a Captcha everytime you want to add a comment! So I think you would have to block their IP address or something :/

NEW RECENT FEATURES:
1. Absolutely LOVE the automatic message that is generated everytime someone comment for you. Especially on the picture comments - this is pretty awesome.

2. Picture caption/description is pretty cool.

3. These were implemented a while back, but I think is worth a mentioned: profile comments are listed newest first, oldest last. Older comments are deleted automatically.

4. Photogallery. Mentioned a while back, but what you may not know is that you can set a picture in the gallery as default and it will also be your profile default picture. Unfortunately, there is no way of deleting a picture if it is your default picture, so I'm assuming you must have at least one picture?

Maybe next time I will post some features that I would like to see (like the ability to edit or delete posts you've made on someone else's profile, 'gates', etc).

UPDATE Sat, 16 Sep 2006 12:24:24 CST
EMOTICONS ARE HERE! Caused a problem in the way links are displayed in messages. Second picture uploaded is an example.

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Admin

Admin says:

We’re trying to avoid the image-verification solution as much as possible, there are thousands of robots trying to spam the community every day but we have some really smart filters.

btw, preview/edit post is on the way! As well as some really cool surprises
Posted: 09/16/06 12:14

sleeper

sleeper says:

Re: New features

Apparently EMOTICONS is here. It caused this problem in the http:'/ links. See picture:
http://img.photobucket....g/cool.jpg
Posted: 09/16/06 12:21

Guest

sonique mp3 says:

but even if i am trying to write a message by myself, it counts me as spam, and i er can write a comment. that's bad
Posted: 12/27/06 07:52

Admin

Admin says:

What do you mean sonique?
ps I just posted a list of some of the most common emoticons:
http://blog.commongate..../emoticons
Posted: 12/27/06 11:54

Guest

sonique mp3 says:

I mean that it is hard for a normal person to leave a comment somewhere,most of the time they concider me a spam and it is impossible to write what you think about the blog, you know. If I put, visit my webpage /www.mp3city.com.ua/ they definitely think i am a computer, sending spam messages.
Have fun!
Posted: 12/28/06 02:40

Admin

Admin says:

We have several tiers of control in order to avoid comment spam (Human, Computer and User based). Are you experiencing problems with your comments?

Thanks for your feedback!
Posted: 12/28/06 02:56

Guest

Acexyrecy says:

hmmmm...very interesting!
Thanks google
Posted: 01/15/08 11:55

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