Firstly, Buriram Times apologise if the site was slow yesterday our Servers experienced some networking issues but we appear to be back up to normal speed now.
Initially we thought the site speed might be down to the website being inundated with spam comments. We don’t believe that to be the case now but we took the decision to temporarily suspend commenting, as a precaution.
During just an average day Buriram Times receives about 100 spam comments usually from a diverse range of dodgy sites. Basically these spammers are trying to get links into popular websites in the hope that they will increase traffic to their site.
From Viagra to the latest ‘Renal Repair’ diet all kinds of bizarre stuff is spammed over the internet daily in the form of comments. The drain on bandwidth must be enormous.
As Google no longer rank a site based on the number of links it has, you have to wonder at the advantage that can be gained by this annoying internet disease. It must be having some benefit for them to continue doing it and I suppose it’s all about numbers.
If they spam a million sites, maybe 25% will be unprotected by spam filters and then a certain percentage of readers might click on a link. But still they can’t be making millions surely.
Lets hope they pack it in soon. In the meantime, you’ll never see one of these comments on Buriram Times as we have excellent spam filters. As soon as our spam filters queues are cleared we’ll reinstate commenting to Buriram Times.
Cheers