Not all spam contains links! Additionally, the OpenID is itself a link. If they put the content they actually want to link to at the address of the OpenID, they'll have achieved increasing their SEO.
Second, friends that use OpenID validation for their open blog comments say it helps cut down on spam (friends on Wordpress mostly).
It does help, yes. But it's not sufficient in and of itself--I think people running individual WordPress blogs have advantages that a big site doesn't, in that they are only valuable targets in aggregate, and most WordPress blogs don't have OpenID built in. If WordPress blogs started to have it, the auto-spam tools like Xrumer would build it in to their system. Spammers wouldn't have to build a dedicated LJ/DW bot--they could autoregister using any number of OpenID services that normal people also use.
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Date: 2009-May-06, Wednesday 02:34 (UTC)Second, friends that use OpenID validation for their open blog comments say it helps cut down on spam (friends on Wordpress mostly).
It does help, yes. But it's not sufficient in and of itself--I think people running individual WordPress blogs have advantages that a big site doesn't, in that they are only valuable targets in aggregate, and most WordPress blogs don't have OpenID built in. If WordPress blogs started to have it, the auto-spam tools like Xrumer would build it in to their system. Spammers wouldn't have to build a dedicated LJ/DW bot--they could autoregister using any number of OpenID services that normal people also use.
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