It is looking like it may be a very interesting site. It’s for posting stolen photos used in adult sites like (but not limited to) Niteflirt, links to the pages they are being used on, and links to Myspace and other social networking accounts that the photos were stolen from.

Niteflirt is a site where individuals set up accounts to do phone sex. What with human nature and the anonymity of the internet, there is a huge problem with theft of photos from social networking sites and from adult solo girl sites as well. Some of the photos used are known to be of underage girls. Some accounts are full of photos of glossy blond girls partying, drinking with their friends, etc. You know they were taken off a site like Myspace, because they are obviously not intended to be adult content.

Unfortunately, Niteflirt’s method of dealing with copyright violation is to not act unless the owner of the copyrighted photo contacts them with a complaint, and sometimes not even then. It is often impossible to locate the owner of the photos, who may be the photographer rather than the model in case of photos stolen from members sites. On Myspace members steal each other’s photos all the time, complicating finding the real owner.

There is one model with an adult site whose photos have been used (and even sold!) repeatedly on Niteflirt, while the webmaster can’t be bothered doing anything about it.

The photos of one underage model (I believe she is now 18, but many of her photos were taken before she turned 18) in particular have turned up in many Niteflirt accounts.

Unfortunately, Myspace has no interest in dealing with the problem. If you make a complaint to them, they will send you a random form email about how to adjust the settings on your account.

I will be following this. You can follow it on Twitter.

Obviously this is only for those who are concerned about unethical and illegal behavior around us. Those of you who think girls should mind their own business when they have knowledge of specific instances when this is occurring (in other words, aid and abet the thieves), just proceed—until they steal your photos.

This is different. They have redone the admin area to add all kinds of cool jquery javascript functionality. All the menus you need are in the sidebars now. Dropdowns appear with a click. No more multiple menus across the top of the page or waiting for pages to reload so you can get to the menu you need. No more scrolling down below the post to look for the menu you need or forgetting to put tags or categories because, out of sight, out of mind.

It’s just very intuitive. Even the menus that are below the post are all dropdowns.

And they even got rid of that nasty default color scheme.

Just check your posts when you update. I have found that about half of mine had their permalinks reset to the default format, not anything I wanted.

Some screenshots:

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Readers can comment on your blog entries. If you write interesting or controversial blog entries and you have a lot of readers, you can sometimes get some lively discussions going in the comments.

Blog comments are good. Blog comment spam is bad.

What is blog comment spam?

It is everything from links to free porn, drugs, spyware, trojans, dialers, and scams to otherwise legitmate affilate links. These are spammed to your blog in massive numbers, thanks to the fact that WordPress blogs share a common comment entry form, which bots have been designed to recognize and spam.

Obviously, the reason they’re doing it is that people do click those links and get suckered in. It’s a dirty secret that corporate America makes big bucks when their affiliates spam anyone and everything hundreds or thousands of times.

You could easily get hundreds of spam comments a week on a popular blog.

WordPress’s answer to this was to give you a moderation list of terms to put certain comments into a moderation queue in your admin area, and a blacklist to send comments containing certain words into oblivion. I tried this, but it was of limited usefulness, as spammers got sneakier and came up with new ways to fake out the blacklist.

So what can you do?

First of all, you have to moderate your blog comments. A blog with unmoderated comments will rapidly get buried in spam comments, and nobody will want to wade through them to try to read your blog, even if you try to remove them as soon as possible after they arrive.

Go to Options => Discussion. Select the first two options from this menu:

Make sure you resave the page.

So now your comments will form a queue in your admin area, and you will have to approve or delete them. This gets old really fast if you get a lot of spam. It’s easy to miss the real thing when you’ve got hundreds of comments to inspect and maybe only a few that are really comments.

The next thing I did was to install Akismet, a WordPress plugin which uses a database of known spam to detect suspected spam and put it in its own moderation list. Not bad, at least at first, but you still have to moderate them. And once in a while, Akismet does catch real comments in its snare. After you reach a certain threshold, Akismet is not enough, like here:

No kidding.

I was getting really annoyed at the situation. Next I installed Bad Behavior, which observes behavior to separate out the people from the bots. I also added Spambam, yet another anti-spam plugin that does a delaying tactic before accepting comments.

I don’t have a spam problem anymore on any of my blogs. If I do have a problem, I’ll let you know how I deal with it. There are plenty more plugins out there where these came from.