Comments on: Is “AutoPligg” killing Pligg?

By: Anthony

Anthony — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 10:43:19 +0000

Hi Machi,

Thanks for your comment. You right spam didn’t kill Wordpress, but Wordpress reacted to it much more efficiently.

However Wordpress does have a ton more users/developers supporting it.

Cheers,
Anthony

By: Machi

Machi — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:38:32 +0000

I’d say the potential damnation of the Pligg sites falls squarely on the Pligg sites owners. WordPress spam didn’t kill wordpress, and Pligg spam won’t kill pligg…re-captcha is all it takes to stop pligg spam…that’s it, nothing more. Re-Captcha capability is included in the latest version of Pligg and only has to be enabled.

Look, let’s stop pandering to the lowest common denominator of webmaster and site owners…it’s on them to take the time and actually READ something before running around like Chicken Little “OMG, OMG!! PLIGG IS DEAD”

By: Anthony

Anthony — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:00:22 +0000

I didn’t know there were tools prior to AutoPligg, thanks for the info & thanks for your comment.

By: Feydakin

Feydakin — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:20:00 +0000

Pligg was overrun with spam long before AutoPligg showed up.. I tried to run a pligg based site and after a month I scrapped it.. It’s nearly impossible to secure without a real development staff on hand to find and plug the holes.. Plus, I was there before there was even an email verification process, it was worse then..

While I admire the effort that the developers put in to Pligg, their attention to security simply did not exist.. It’s like it never occurred to them that there were link spammers in the world..

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 11:12:09 +0000

Hi Peter, thanks for your comment.

With great power comes great responsibility.

There could be other tools to do it as well now, AutoPligg was certainly the original though.

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 01:36:12 +0000

Are you sure its Autopligg there seems to be more then one tool doing this?
The bottom line really, its users not the tool and the way search engines treat links
Now if goolge and the others where to stop trying to save face and just say there now utilize a small army of people to grade websites this sort of thing would stop
As all the sites that come into the top 40 serps get kicked out if they are below quality now

I see this as a useful tool in the right hands