Comments on: Small mini rant for Sunday

By: jayb

jayb — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 03:01:03 +0000

Well I finally got sick of ID not blocking the spam comments and turned it off. Hope the new filters I installed stop these junk comments.
But we still have link luv!!

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:11:28 +0000

Many of those "thanks, you helped me with… " comments are automaticaly generated by bots. It's not really the matter of deleting them because since their ammount is overwhelming. You'll hit spam button twice and meanwhile 5 others bloggers will approve their comments just so they can brag about having so much commenters.

By: Svetlana Gladkova

Svetlana Gladkova — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:26:38 +0000

I guess this is a problem for many bloggers – as soon as you get some readers and pagerank they begin to chase popular posts to add a link (with some of them even trying to overcome the no-follow tag for their links). But I think the poor quality of comments is totally understandable – I've seen people offering to buy comments in batch for mere cents on forums for webmasters. I only wonder if there's some information on how many of such crappy comments get approved and how many are sorted out like spam as I guess many bloggers are less generous than you are.

By: Karmin

Karmin — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:28:08 +0000

On my blog I get tired of these comments. On days when I am in a good mood I tolerate them but on my cranky days I hit the spam option and eventually their url will end up on the askimet spam list.
I am totally ok with commenting for a link, but what gets me is those sites that are hiring people from other countries to do this for them.