By Rob Safuto on Oct 16, 2006 in Observations, RSS, Security, Social Media, WordPress | 0 Comments
Neville Hobson just pointed me to an excellent WordPress plugin called Sig2Feed.
The plugin will add a customizable signature to each of the posts in your RSS feed. The main purpose of this feature is to direct people back to your site if they happen to stumble upon your content through another site that is aggregating [...]
By Rob Safuto on Sep 24, 2006 in Analysis, Security, Social Media | 0 Comments
Moderating comments is a simple but powerful way to protect your social site from the evil ways of spammers.
When you moderate comments they are pushed into a queue for review prior to being made viewable on the website. This feature adds an extra step to your process as the proprietor of a social site because you [...]
By Rob Safuto on Sep 23, 2006 in Blogging, Security, Social Media | 4 Comments
I mentioned Akismet back in May but it’s a tool worth mentioning again now that I’m harping on social media security.
Aksimet is a plugin for WordPress and over 20 other systems that filters out unwanted spam messages on your site. When you utilize the Akismet plugin you share information and get the benefit of shared [...]
By Rob Safuto on Sep 22, 2006 in Security, Social Media | 1 Comment
This is the first of the spam fighting tools and techniques that I’ll feature following my wiki spam attack.
Bad Behavior is a set of PHP scripts that helps to protect social websites from spam bots. According to their official website Bad Behavior does this, “by analyzing their actual HTTP requests and comparing them to profiles [...]
By Rob Safuto on Sep 21, 2006 in Security, Social Media | 0 Comments
I’ve mentioned the dangers of spam on this blog before, highlighting the pain of some other parties in their efforts to block spam on their social media websites. We’ll I should have taken my own medicine.
You see, I’ve got this site that I call the Social Media Wiki. When I set the site up I [...]