Hi Ken,
Good to see you back.
- I agree. Blocked IP's are not good for communication and the internet.
- Sometimes, it is, especially for small companies with limited resources, the least of two evils to block IP's or use other, not so efficient filters.
Related WPW posts:
This seems like a never ending Marathon race. It costs you hours of work, takes away foccus, steals bandwith and is a great inconvinience loss for smaller companies. Tell me a better way to do it for small companies with limited resources.
Economic concequences:
- How shall you mesasure the effect of decreased cash flow (increased costs and decreased income)?
- What is the present value of the long term economic loss and degraded brand?
- Let us say that it costs the average Web Master two hours a week to get rid of spam in various forms. Then you can use an average hourly pay and costs and multipy that with an estimate of how many web masters that are effected. Then multipy that amount with x years and compute the present value.
My estimate is an accumulated loss over 20 years that amounts to more than a trillion USD.
These attacks are terrorizing small companies. Some may give up their internet business.
Now I can tell you the following. I do not know if you remember
the meta description tag thread here at WPW. At the same time I noted a remarked degrading of my site that had a top rating on an important Norwegian portal. It may be a coincidence, but I am not borne yesterday. I contacted the owner of the portal and asked how the rating was computed. He said that a person could vote again after some hours. My site
got remarkably many votes during a very short time interval, without a similar increased voting on the other sites on the same rating page. Then the voting suddenly stopped. My site had a top rating of 10. It was not difficult to figure out that some persons started to give a vote of 1 (an equation with one unknown). Today that site has the lowest rating on that rating site.
Some persons
may be satisfied with their job so long.