Last week I got two spams that seaped through comments on problogger. I sent Darren a short reply sharing my disappointment that these “undesirables” slipped through his filters. Today, I see Darren has written about hitting comment spammers and plagiarists where it hurts by reporting the ones that use Adsense:

Every day I find people wasting my time and trying to make a quick buck from my blogs in ways that are either illegal, malicious, morally corrupt or deceptive. Most of them do so using some sort of mainstream Ad network (usually AdSense) and I’ve decided to report each one of them to AdSense using the built in mechanism on each AdSense ad.

Tear ‘em up, Darren. I’m with you 1000% on this one.

Yesterday during Mother’s Day this blog received six separate 150+ comment blasts from comment spammers targeting keywords related to online gambling and drugs. My filters trapped and dispatched all these comments before ever making it live on the site, but I think it’s especially telling how lowlife some of these people have become. They will do anything on any day, including holidays and weekends when they tend to accelerate their scams, to get their crap in front of us.

Robert Scoble who is currently going through some personal hardship with his mother who recently had a stroke and has received overwhelming support in the comments area of his blog also sounded off about how clueless some marketing people are. These insensitive fools couldn’t take enough of their time to look at his blog and see what was going on, but had plenty of time to email stuff to him to be reviewed.

If there are any spammers reading this — extremely doubtful, I realize — you better be aware that our servers are known hostile area for your BS and you will not get through. Spam us and risk having your ass being abuse reported to your hosting company and the affiiliate program(s) being notified. If the activity persists and the affiliate owner does nothing, we will notify the affiliate program’s hosting company complaining about the spam too. Hosting companies do not want to get onto spammer blacklists because that can impact all their customers, including the legitimate ones.

The only way we’ll rid the spam scourge from the internet is by taking away the incentives, cutting off the money at the source. While it will never be completely eradicated, I believe if enough webmasters bind together, the risk of spamming will be so high that only the insane will partake.

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