Idea, idea, idea… Now repeat 59 times. Voilà! 59 ideas!
As usual I was surfing around and clicked on a blogspot blog. The usual drill is,
A few minutes ago, something extraordinary happened, the blogspot sites loads!
Has China unblock all blogspot sites?
A quick check on WordPress.com, it is still blocked.
Now that I have a few more sites running, I have less to talk about here. A random rant about spam and the collection of links from del.icio.us
I talk about Motorcycle, Online Revenue, Investing, Analytics, Free Business Softwares elsewhere. If you share similar interest, drop by.
Why so many blog? Check out my original goal.
So there are more sites to come, if you have some interesting ideas about what sites to build, I like to do it with you. It is getting less fun doing alone.
or are over zealous anti-spam tactics shooting themselves in the foot?
A while back I mentioned being unable to post comment because of black list. Today yet another silly tactic stopped me from commenting on Revnews.
Upon submitting my comment, this is what I get.
Comment Submission Error
Your comment submission failed for the following reasons:
In an effort to curb malicious comment posting by abusive users, I’ve enabled a feature that requires a weblog commenter to wait a short amount of time before being able to post again. Please try to post your comment again in a short while. Thanks for your patience.
Funny thing I did not post any comment before this. It was the first comment I’m posting to the site.
I waited for a short amount of time. Try again. No luck. Tried 3 more times. Gave up and decided to write this post instead.
Ask yourself, are you killing spam or killing usability (and user’s patience)?
This must be old news but I hardly look at Google video until today.
And when I did, this was what I got,
Currently, the playback feature of Google Video isn’t available in your country.
I can only suspect it is a China problem because how can this be a technical problem? Which other country is it not available?
Blocked websites, blocked videos. Oh well, the irritation of Internet in China.
Spam is a problem. But something what people do to get rid of spam is an even bigger problem.
Prime example: Blackhole list (which a**hole thought of this idea anyway?)
I had commented before that I’m not a fan of blackhold list.
Today, I’m totally mad at Jeremy Zawodny for not allowing me to comment on his post.
The reason?
He, of all person, decided to use a blackhold list to scan the commenter IP and protect his blog from spam.
And I’m not simply accusing him, look at what he wrote here.
Now we all know that “high volume senders” aren’t necessarily spammer
Maybe he should also know that “China IP” aren’t necessarily spammer.
Working in Yahoo, he should know that blackhole list is nothing but problem for sites that generate content, newsletters and whatnot.
You try to keep some bad guys out but ended up pissing many that supported you.
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