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]]> By: Nick http://www.michaelbarton.name/2010/02/07/how-to-get-yourself-a-digg-like-site/comment-page-1/#comment-994 Nick Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:33:52 +0000 http://www.michaelbarton.name/?p=751#comment-994 I think you underestimate how much of a problem spam is for social bookmarking sites. ReCaptcha is easily broken by decaptcher.com which is an option in the AutoPligg script that many "seo professionals" use to mass-spam thousands of sites at a time. Those that don't pay for the decaptcher service have to manually fill in each captcha, but that only takes a few seconds and is worth it for people getting paid to do so. Browse the SEO section of any freelance site and you'll find hundreds of people offering services to get you better Google rankings, and the easiest way to get backlinks is by submitting posts to social bookmarking sites, even if you have to register and submit each link manually. It's for this reason that there are so few established Digg-style sites out there. Pligg started in 2005, but in all these years, very few sites using it have come to anything. Sphinn.com had to close its submission form over New Year because their 20-odd moderators wouldn't be around to bury the spam, and BlogEngage.com has had to go invite-only. Those sites that have lasted have only done so because the site admin has worked incredibly hard to block the spam. Pligg isn't the only bookmarking platform affected, but since it's the biggest, it's naturally the biggest target. Search Google for Pligg lists and it's easy to understand why we get hammered by spam - more so than any Wordpress admin could imagine. Having been a victim of Pligg spam since 2007, Hotaru CMS is armed to the teeth with anti-spam features. Incidentally, although we started in June 2009, we actually go back to 2007. It was Pligg's darkest hour when their lead developer and a few other members forked Pligg into Social Web CMS. One year later we agreed to rewrite it from scratch as Hotaru CMS. Thanks for giving Hotaru a go. Since your comment, we have come out of beta and have over 50 plugins already - all free (which I think is what Terukazu was getting at when he said Pligg charge for modules). I think you underestimate how much of a problem spam is for social bookmarking sites. ReCaptcha is easily broken by decaptcher.com which is an option in the AutoPligg script that many “seo professionals” use to mass-spam thousands of sites at a time. Those that don’t pay for the decaptcher service have to manually fill in each captcha, but that only takes a few seconds and is worth it for people getting paid to do so. Browse the SEO section of any freelance site and you’ll find hundreds of people offering services to get you better Google rankings, and the easiest way to get backlinks is by submitting posts to social bookmarking sites, even if you have to register and submit each link manually.

It’s for this reason that there are so few established Digg-style sites out there. Pligg started in 2005, but in all these years, very few sites using it have come to anything. Sphinn.com had to close its submission form over New Year because their 20-odd moderators wouldn’t be around to bury the spam, and BlogEngage.com has had to go invite-only.

Those sites that have lasted have only done so because the site admin has worked incredibly hard to block the spam. Pligg isn’t the only bookmarking platform affected, but since it’s the biggest, it’s naturally the biggest target. Search Google for Pligg lists and it’s easy to understand why we get hammered by spam – more so than any WordPress admin could imagine.

Having been a victim of Pligg spam since 2007, Hotaru CMS is armed to the teeth with anti-spam features.

Incidentally, although we started in June 2009, we actually go back to 2007. It was Pligg’s darkest hour when their lead developer and a few other members forked Pligg into Social Web CMS. One year later we agreed to rewrite it from scratch as Hotaru CMS.

Thanks for giving Hotaru a go. Since your comment, we have come out of beta and have over 50 plugins already – all free (which I think is what Terukazu was getting at when he said Pligg charge for modules).

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]]> By: Michael Barton http://www.michaelbarton.name/2010/02/07/how-to-get-yourself-a-digg-like-site/comment-page-1/#comment-907 Michael Barton Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:04:58 +0000 http://www.michaelbarton.name/?p=751#comment-907 What do you mean by "much spam"? Pligg uses reCAPTCHA to prevent SPAM. I haven't used the hosted solution, nor would I recommend using a hosted solution. Web hosting is dirt cheap nowadays. The thing I don't like about Hotaru CMS is that it was founded June 18, 2009. It's way too young for my tastes. I'm playing with it and if I like it and I think it's good enough, I'll list it above. By the way, thanks for the comment. If you have anything else to say, comment back. What do you mean by “much spam”? Pligg uses reCAPTCHA to prevent SPAM. I haven’t used the hosted solution, nor would I recommend using a hosted solution. Web hosting is dirt cheap nowadays.

The thing I don’t like about Hotaru CMS is that it was founded June 18, 2009. It’s way too young for my tastes. I’m playing with it and if I like it and I think it’s good enough, I’ll list it above.

By the way, thanks for the comment. If you have anything else to say, comment back.

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]]> By: Terukazu http://www.michaelbarton.name/2010/02/07/how-to-get-yourself-a-digg-like-site/comment-page-1/#comment-881 Terukazu Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:38:18 +0000 http://www.michaelbarton.name/?p=751#comment-881 Pligg is too much spam and modules is too much cost. Hotaru CMS is free and good spam wall. Pligg is too much spam and modules is too much cost. Hotaru CMS is free and good spam wall.

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