An obvious way of measuring how a blog is “growing” is to track the numbers of hits, comments and pingbacks, of course, so it’s nice to see those numbers rising. I get a certain amount of amusement, though, from seeing what sort and volume of comment spam comes our way.
I’m less amused to find that we’re starting to get indirect attention from sites pushing fake AV from re-posts of blogs that reference ours (especially this one on “how to screw up testing”). This blog offers a way for people who aren’t members to follow what AMTSO is doing and offer feedback through comments, so I’m not about to disable commenting here. However, this does mean that I have to check all comments before approving them.
Obviously, this means that approving comments will take longer: maintaining the blog is a volunteer effort that has to be fitted round other jobs. This may mean that there are occasions when a valuable comment doesn’t get approved in a timely fashion, for which I apologise. I’ll be looking at ways of making maintaining this blog more effective and efficient, but that too is a job that has to be done when other priorities aren’t competing.
David Harley CITP FBCS CISSP
AMTSO Wordsmith & ESET Senior Research Fellow
Tags: blog development, comment spam, comments, David Harley, fake AV, feedback, hits, pingbacks
June 27, 2010 at 18:25 |
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