Ted Patrick - Demos & MAX @ Adobe Systems
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My blog at onflex.org and onflash.org gets a ton of comment spam. Depending on the day I get upwards of 100 spam comments on my blog daily. I filter comments on my blog to remove the spam and publish all comments posted. As many know, I am fairly open to feedback and am very open to hearing alternative points of view even ones of violent disagreement. I thus have not and do not filter based on opinions expressed. Simple as that.The ethical line here is very important to me and to see that questioned today is disturbing. For the many that know me, this is something that I would never do and a line I would never cross. To be accused of wrongdoing seems amiss.
So long story short, if you want a comment posted, post one.
Regards,
Ted :)
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Ok Ted, again... I'm not in a battle with you and I didn't question your ethics. I said I was confused as to why my comment didn't get approved and you cleared it up. Done. Thanks.
As for not approving your comment fast enough on my blog, you waited about 30 minutes before you started hounding me on twitter whereas I waited until the next day to say anything. I was away from my computer at lunch during the time that you commented.
Jason, your post has an entire section devoted to a proof in text and screenshots that I treated your opinion differently than others. Essentially it leaves readers to assume that I filter comments with an unethically bias. If the community views me as unethical, my influence, credibility, and job are worthless.
I think it is great you have different opinions, I actually encourage everyone to express them on this blog, that is not the issue at all. I have issue with someone publicly accusing me of something I didn't do, which your post clearly does.
Ted :)
Haha, the internet (or should I say Flash community) is sounding like World of Warcraft (which has been a few years back). Too bad it's hard to quit playing this 'internet' game.
Speaking of moderation, how long does it take for a post to the FlexJobs mailing list to get moderated? The last post is dated May 4th. Any job list where the moderation takes more than a few days at most is not of much use.
FlexJobs is far worse, it gets 300+ spam messages a day when active. The UI for managing spam on Yahoo Groups is hopelessly wrecked making the FlexJobs list currently unmanageable.
I would love to find a way to make this easier to manage and am all ears in this regard.
ted :)
off-topic@Ted look into: http://www.jobberbase.com/demo/ its really a nice open solution and seems rather spam resistant in my experiences with it, runs on LAMP too.
on-topic@Ted I really don't think Jason meant any harm, when I read his post it was interpreted as mere confusion. Though I don't believe it deserved such a formal blog as a private message would of been much better starting point, but the results only further establishes your aims of transparency and honesty. Really thanks for all you have done and continue to do for our community and I look forward the future knowing Adobe has does such a great job on selecting evangelists such as yourself, Lee and numerous others.
Also I Hope this doesn't bring any stress onto you, I admin an open source community myself and know how things like this can cause some commotion... but from my experience it normally indicates progression for the better.
wordPress with Akismet is awesome for spam comments.
Regarding FlexJobs, I don't have a solution for the spam problem, but if you're not going to moderate it on a regular basis, you should either make it unmoderated, and let subscribers decide if they want to deal with the spam or not, or else shut it down altogether. Keeping it in its current alive-but-abandoned state misleads people and wastes their time.
that's true, nowdays most of the websites are using this technique to up rise their websites so they get high rankings, while doing a small comment with a good words and a little link won't be a trouble,
as an example my comment now!
lol
I know you must be very depressed...
The blog moderation is a main thing for blog owners and if you receive 100 spam comments daily than you have to delete them all so make your comment posting moderation approval.
I agree with this, wordPress with Akismet is awesome for spam comments
Thanks for sharing informations.Looking forward to more stuff.