Comments on: RSS Spam? ZDNet is very confused.

By: Whiterabbit

Whiterabbit — Sat, 21 May 2005 14:04:09 +0000

I too, am very disappointed in seeing an increase in RSS spam. YES, it is spam. Anything non-news is spam for RSS. The whole intent of RSS was to avoid "ADVERTISING". It just doesn't belong in this venue. RSS is a failure if the content providers have no honor or ethics. They are "selling out" for greed. Plain and simple.

By: Duh

Duh — Tue, 23 Nov 2004 20:17:19 +0000

Of course it is spam.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Nov 2004 16:19:49 +0000

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4017147.stm Let’s put this discussion into the real world.

RSS is not anarchy. Open source is not anarchy. The commons is not anarchy.

By: Michael Moncur

Michael Moncur — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 01:35:58 +0000

What? All feeds are defined by sites. If you're getting a feed by subject, then it's coming from a site like Moreover or Feedster, and they're in control of it.

If you're talking about RSS spam in the same sense as Google spam--trying to get spammy content to return in Feedster searches--that makes sense. I was just very confused by your post.

Is that what you were talking about?

Your question makes sense, people have been asking it about Google and Wikipedia for years and years and I don't think there's a clear answer. It's just that the part of your post that discussed RSS spam and Creative Commons seemed unrelated to the question and confused me.

By: Dana Blankenhorn

Dana Blankenhorn — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 00:25:09 +0000

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4017147.stm Let’s put this discussion into the real world.

By: Dana Blankenhorn

Dana Blankenhorn — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 00:22:54 +0000

I wrote that and I stand by it. It was not "controlled," in the sense of "big media blogs" being controlled, by editors. It was thrown out there by a blogger, me.

How do you police the commons and keep it from being destroyed by the unethical?

That's my question. It's a fair question.

And I haven't heard an answer yet. Just insults directed at me for asking the question. As though RSS spam doesn't exist. As though people only subscribe to "feeds" defined by sites, which is nonsense. People look for subjects, too -- give me everything on that subject. And the result is that instead of getting a "news stream" with articles and comments, you get a lot of spam.

Come visit my inbox sometime...

All the best. Thanks for reading it.

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