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Dear Spammers…
I don’t care if you do write hand-crafted comments that are actually relevant to the post contents: If you sign your name ‘inflatables’, ‘pistons’ or ‘Caribbean holidays’ instead of a real name then I’m tagging you for the spammer that you are.
The way WordPress works, then pretty soon any comment you leave on a WordPress blog will go straight to spam.
It’s not worth your time as the SEO benefits are non-existent, it pisses people off and puts you on a blacklist-you have been warned.
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January 29th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Good to see a resumption (spasm?) of blogging activity, Chris.
(Spasm — that’s spams spelled sideways.)
I have to tell you these spammers are pretty savvy. I have multiple email accounts (don’t say there’s one for everyone of the voice in my head — that’s not nice).
Some of these accounts are more active than others. Guess which ones draw the big-time spam?
Fortunately (?) for me my blogs are so unimportant in the Blogosphere that they seldom attract spam comments.
When you think about it, spam is almost a sign of success, isn’t it?
January 29th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
Thanks C.
Work gets in the way of blogging
Yeah I know what you mean it’s certainly a dubious badge of honour. I just thought I’d make it clear in case any of them whine about getting deleted……
February 2nd, 2008 at 6:09 pm
I get irritated when I see my articles reproduced on some splog with a bad neighborhood domain like “gayafricansex.net”.
I use a different CMS and I do not have comments, so no issues with comment spam.
February 9th, 2008 at 1:54 am
As for me, spam is nothing but a no substance comments. If he talks about something useful to readers why not reward the person with link and the choice of anchor text? Of course, I wouldn\’t accept links and anchor text from sites that promote hate, drugs, and etc.
Spam is inevitable. Just like the first comment poster said it\’s a sign of success. The more you have it the more famous your blog is.
February 10th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Hear hear.
February 22nd, 2008 at 2:04 pm
I absolutely hate comment spam.
Just looked at my askimet stats and it’s marked over 1000 as spam -v- 5 genuine real life comments.
I really don’t understand the point of it - as if you’re going to allow a link to some dubious site.
It’s got to be computer generated or do they set up a comment template and try to distribute it as far and as wide as possible?
February 22nd, 2008 at 8:24 pm
I’m with you John, but as with email spam enough people DO follow it to make it worthwhile…..