3 posts tagged “splogs”

First Twitter died for nearly two days. Facebook has been progressively dying, first removing its navigation bars, then its logo, then making false accusations, and now removing all the contents of my home page. And today, I see Vox has begun recommending splogs on my blog:

   I have reported many of these and tonight, I am just too tired to. Hopefully someone else can take up the baton for the time being. Vox is pretty good at dealing to these.

Looks like there are new IP addresses that the sploggers are exploiting Vox from. If you go to ‘Explore Vox’, you will probably find that splogs, again, outnumber legitimate posts by a substantial amount. I have suggested to Vox that surely a CAPTCHA method could prevent this. The latest report (not in text, as it will be linked) that I just sent was this—and this is just from a single page of featured posts on Vox:

   And in ‘Recent posts’ they have totally taken over: PS.: I worked out from ‘Explore Vox’ that splog posts are entering the system at a rate of around 50 per minute.

After each posting to Vox I noticed that ‘Recent posts’ was filled with splogs, spam blogs. I have been reporting a lot to Vox, and wasn’t sure if they did anything with my reports. Others I know, who are friends here, have done the same.
   Today, I noticed something refreshing: no splogs at all among the ‘Recent posts’! I hope this wasn’t a fluke, but that Vox has genuinely fixed this problem. Maybe it went and deleted all the blogs associated with a certain group of IPs, or it has been able to tell which were started by spambots.
   Also notice, for the type geeks out there, the kerning in Firefox! I see Vo and Yo combinations below. I even enjoy typing YouTube for the kerns in Yo and uTu in my default Lucire sans serif typeface.