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By Abhishek Ghosh August 2, 2011 4:08 pm Updated on August 2, 2011

Types of Spammers for WordPress Blogs

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Types of Spammers classification is based on our day to day experience while moderating comments as well as the informations published in different Forums and Blogs.

When the idea really came in mind, we started searching. Nice! Even Wikipedia has a dedicated article on Spam in Blogs.

Earlier, numerous authors has already classified the types of Spammers, most are written few years back and needs a bit update!

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This article Types of Spammers for WordPress Blogs, though is written in a funny tone, has serious thought and rigorous Internet searches behind it, which might help the new bloggers to identify the spams and spammers.

 

Why you have mentioned “WordPress” in this Types of Spammers article?

 

  • We have first hand experience only with WordPress
  • WordPress is the most used CMS now
  • There are different flexible ways to fight spams in WordPress, this article on types on spammers might give ideas to anti-spam plugin developers as well

 

Other posts written on Types of Spammers and spam by noteworthy authors

 

Other web-masters has classified Types of Spammers before us. We will mention them at suitable areas. Other than losing link juice, Spam increases the burden on database and spam Trackbacks and Pingbacks has the potential to do harm like URL redirection as well.

 

Types of spammers based on Comment Type

 

This was originally written by Securelist on Page 88. He / She classified types of spam (not type of spammers) based on content:

 

  • Adult content
  • Health
  • IT
  • Personal finance
  • Education and training

 

But, it is most likely that one spammer will not dedicatedly spam on a single High Keyword Value topic.

 

Types of Spammers done by The Industry Review

 

The Industry Review classified the types of spammers in to 5 types:

 

  • The mass linker
  • The innocent commenter
  • The weird commenter
  • The massive spammer
  • The foreign spammer

 

Criticism : One of the best approach to classify the types of Spammers. However, one spammer can be of two types at the same time : a massive spammer can be a innocent commenter too.

 

Types of Spammers as classified by Cubert

 

Cubert originally classified types of spammers for Forums. Cubert’s classification is applicable to some extent for WordPress blogs as well. Cubert has described 10 Types of Spammers :

 

  • Cross Post Spammer
  • The Community Member Spammer
  • The Classic Spammer
  • The Request for Help Spammer
  • The Informational Spammer
  • The Recruitment Spammer
  • Thread Hijack Spammer
  • Serial Topic Spammer
  • Group Spammer
  • Link Bait Spammer

 

Types of Spammers : Our approach

 

Our approach to classify the Types of Spammers is based on Cluster Analysis and follows the basics of Statistical classification. This approach to classify spammers might help to easily label one spammer with positive likelihood ratio if the work is done by a group or person in future.

 

To classify the spammers in to different types of spammers, we are taking all the person who made comments on a section (think domains).

As a spammer is actually a human (either operating a software to mass spam or manually), he / she belongs to the sub set of our society who uses the Internet for business purpose.

Akismet can be used to classify Types of Spammers as it provides the data of False Positive, True Positive and False Negative.

 

Proposed prototype working classification of Types of Spammers

 

 

Types of Spammers for WordPress Blogs

 

 

This is a prototype to classify Types of Spammers based on overall commentary activity of the spammer. The number of spams posted by a single spammer should not be less than a certain number (higher the better).

So, this approach to classify the Types of Spammers can be made more sophisticated by input from WordPress users using the same plugin (Akismet for example). Users can label the spammer in to basic types, which are easy to understand for the novice users. For example, an additional field / tick mark in Akismet-WordPress interface to delete or approve a comment can collect the data from end user to classify Types of Spammers and give a labeling system.

After automated analysis, Akismet like plugins can mark the spams with colors :

  • Red (Very high positive likelihood ratio or has potential risks)
  • Amber / Yellow (moderate)
  • Blue (can not be determined)
  • Green (Lowest likelihood ratio)

 

Probability of False Negative to classify the Types of Spammers should be eliminated.

 

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Abhishek Ghosh is a Businessman, Surgeon, Author and Blogger. You can keep touch with him on Twitter - @AbhishekCTRL.

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