2004 December 5: I work in the same beauty salon

Fazal and Ben write about their recent experience with referrer and comment spam. I’ve had a fellow try fairly aggressively for a few weeks now to spam me. He is not getting through any more. Why he is trying, I don’t know, because I don’t publish referrers and I never pay attention to my stats, except to look for abuse. In the end he’s doing me a favour because I now know a lot more about how best to block and not block spammers and photo thieves.

In the process I have probably blocked a few legitimate sites from pointing at my snaps. But the lesson here is, point to the permalink, not to the image itself.

Like Ben, I presume some of the spammers are doing research. And a few are just complete idiots. But it’s not always easy to tell the difference.

Why is it that professional photographer’s sites, in general, look like shite? And amateur sites look much better? The photos, not just the layouts. You end up wondering how the fish earn their living when everything looks horrible. And why the amateurs aren’t earning their living with their cameras. Or even amateur photographers, esp B&W ones, who apparently go to extreme lengths to get the best print possible, but do the grossest hacks in posting their photos to the Web.

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