Spam summit spurns spammers

Jason Duke at Threadwatch reports on how a “spam summit”, apparently being organised from within the blogosphere, has spurned the help and assistance of people who openly declare they spam blogs for a living.

Sounds like a poor move. I guess the bloggers feel that they have a complete understanding of blog spam issues. Hm, if spam is an issue, then maybe not. Or else SEM people just aren’t as a cool to hang out with as search engine employees.

Somehow the ’spam summit’ always looked like a “‘Rah ‘rah!” session from the start - an opportunity for people to pat each others backs and say how clever they are. Back to that perception now.

I don’t blog spam and I don’t understand the scale of the problem. But if I wanted to know more about the issue of blog spam, and tackling the issues of blog spam, then I would talk to self-confessed blog spammers to find out how they work and how such work can be reduced to an absolute minimum.

By the way, if Anil Dash is going, the issue of trackback moderation has already raised in the SixApart MT support forums. Does he really need to talk to Jeremy Zawodny to know it’s a good option to offer bloggers?

Then again, if the blog spam summit can’t even keep it’s own pages spam free than I guess there’s little hope for them.