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06 Feb

Posted by Hock as Hall of Shame

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If you’re going to place thinly veiled comment spam on my site, I’m going to call you out.

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I’m not sure which is worse, outright spammers with their pay day loan comments or these…

“This is an information that is obviously of great value. I totally agree with your statements.Thanks for sharing it!”

“This is obviously one great post. The information are very insightful and helpful. Thanks for sharing all of these.”

By the way, those two are from the same person. Oh stop patronizing me. You’ve obviously hired someone for $2 an hour to post comments on blogs to get links back to your site. If you’re going to do it, at least tell them to be more creative.

Consider your comments deleted and banned.

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5 Responses

Thomas Sinfield

February 6th, 2008 at 8:57 am
1

It’s so true. I hate it so much, cause I get my fair share of comment spam as well. I currently have a guy that says ‘Good post..thanks for sharing’ on every new post I make.

I am just going to reject them from now on!
Hock

February 6th, 2008 at 9:14 am
2

Thomas, Akismet catches most of the spam but sometimes valid comments get in there too. I guess I could also let my readers know that posting those types of comments will get them banned.
Stephane

February 6th, 2008 at 10:34 am
3

I get email notifications for every comments on my blogs so I can usually react pretty quickly. On another hand, I could moderate all comments…
Hock

February 7th, 2008 at 12:37 am
4

Email notifications can get out of hand once your blog popularity grows and more people start commenting.
iDope

February 22nd, 2008 at 2:56 am
5

Stephane,
Its all a matter of volume. I dont want to spend every minute of my day checking for spam. Akismet works okay for me but lets through couple of spam frequently (especially the ones without links). And I hate captchas, I will never put one on my blog. So I wrote a plugin to block comment spam without resorting to captchas called WP Captcha-Free (Sorry for the shameless plug, I hope you dont take this as comment spam ;) ). It uses a combination of time based hash and ajax to block spam (or atleast ensure the commenter was human and not a bot). I use it myself of both my blogs and now get zero spam from an earlier 40+ per day. This doesn’t replace Akismet but does complement it very well. You can check it out at http://wordpresssupplies.com/wordpress-plugins/captcha-free/