Spam – A time consuming nightmare

[Maximus]

Unfortunately, almost every popular website is a potential spam target nowadays. There are even entire firms specialized at providing spam services, such as almost all providers of backlinks for a certain website. Because of the high demand of such services, even some software developers are producing and distributing applications, such as Senuke , multiposter, xgen, and similar. Spam is making the everyday webmaster`s work harder, it consumes a substantial part of you time, and it is capable of affecting or even destroying many important website`s aspects. Herein, we must keep our websites ``clean``, and this thread is the best place to help each other with relevant ideas and methods, which could increase the spam protection of our websites or at least reduce the spam levels.