Professor Mark J. Perry's Blog for Economics and Finance
Dr. Mark J. Perry is a professor of economics and finance in the School of Management at the Flint campus of the University of Michigan. Perry holds two graduate degrees in economics (M.A. and Ph.D.) from George Mason University near Washington, D.C. In addition, he holds an MBA degree in finance from the Curtis L. Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. In addition to a faculty appointment at the University of Michigan-Flint, Perry is also a visiting scholar at The American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.
16 Comments:
Man, those spammers are annoying!
I wonder, just throwing this out there, but if you had a comment system similar to that at Cafe Hayek where you need a Facebook account to post comments, would that stop the problem?
I am assuming, however, that you view this as a large enough problem to consider a radical change to the blog.
Um...No, Jon. The Cafe was spammed a few days ago. Did you miss the well-endowed and scantily clad lady advertising old women to young men in the comment section?
And it's trivial for spammers to get a Facebook account.
"you need a Facebook account to post comments"...
What if not everyone is sucked in by the shallow attraction of facebook?
Did you miss the well-endowed and scantily clad lady advertising old women to young men in the comment section?
I did miss that.
I will now have the Monty Python Spam song ringing in my head all day. (could be worse I guess)
I heard the spammers were located at a hostel located somewhere in San Fransico. One person's "aspiring tech entrepreneur is often another person's spammer.
I will now have the Monty Python Spam song ringing in my head all day. (could be worse I guess)
Dammit, man! Now I am going to have it stuck in my head all day
I put up my first embedded Vimeo clip today. On a blog that no one reads, all of a suddent the spammers have gone crazy.
Jon,
There's always Barry Manilow's "Copacabana"
Dr. Perry,
I was just skimming through and saw a comment posted (two above this one) from Mike. Speaking of hackers and spam and login...shouldn't each commenter have a unique name to avoid confusion?
As far as I know, I'm the only "Mike" here.
Facebook commenting is miserable, because FB doesn't respect HTML. No bolding, quoting, or links. FB commenting is a terrible choice.
shouldn't each commenter have a unique name to avoid confusion?
That's why I started using my (presumably real) last name and a picture. At first, I was just "Jon", then there was another nutjob named "Jon." To separate my comments from his paranoid rantings, I added the name and picture.
Jon Murphy,
aaaah....I didn't know. Well, I'll wait and see what the other Mike has to say. If he turns out to be smart, I'll take credit for his posts.
For now, anything posted under "Mike" that you believe to be idiotic, feel free to assume it's the new guy.
Please check this out - it's a good first step: http://support.google.com/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=42520
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