Comments on: How To Identify a Smart Spam Comment

By: Marielle Garcia

Marielle Garcia — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:59:18 +0000

Hi…

I just want to drop by to tell you that his post is really really helpful. I’ve been getting alot of spam comments, and I just realized they were spam when I read your article. =D I did a post about it on my blog as well. And I linked back to this post for them to read further more about it. Keep it up

Marielle

blurryleo: { Hi Marielle, I’m glad that the post helped you out. }

By: Money4Invest | Lee

Money4Invest | Lee — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:41:59 +0000

I received some spam comments as well and some of them just passed through the askimet plugin. Luckily I still can manage to catch and delete them away.

blurryleo: { yea, some of those smarter ones can still escape akismet. but those have yet to escape me .. hehehe }

By: Caffery

Caffery — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:17:09 +0000

I simply hates those blog that (automatically?) keep on collecting lot of blog posts, pings to them.

Then may be few months later, the blog no more exist.

And some of the spam just got a link on the Website field, the content is just normal (without any link), and might be fit well with your topic.

blurryleo: { hey Caffery, thanks for dropping by. yep I agree with you. I got quite a number of those pingbacks too whenever the posts I did matched their ‘requirements’. Very annoying. I usually have those removed instantaneously. }

By: calvaryzone

calvaryzone — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:19:35 +0000

you have got to give credit to those creative and evolving spammers. they are afterall, just trying to beat the system.

blurryleo: { LOL … that’s a good one cal … Should have a “world spammers day”, eh .. j/k }

By: Cher

Cher — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:36:19 +0000

*sorry, would like to clarify*
… constructive while commenting in other blogger’s territory.

By: Cher

Cher — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:30:51 +0000

Thanks for the reply I’m thinking of spreading the awareness to other bloggers who always do that. The art of blogging could be appreciated more if they could appreciate the content of the blog and not making it a tool to for self publicity. Yes I can tell them out, but it may make me seem unfriendly by rejecting their comments. sigh, shouldn’t have given it a damn, should I? But more importantly is still, the bloggers themselves should know the ethic. They can write craps in their own blogs, but make it constructive while commenting.

blurryleo: { agreed. well, things like those happen. It’s rather out of our control in a way. we can just hope that as time goes by, readers will learn to make constructive and meaningful comments . have a great day. }

By: Superman

Superman — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:18:21 +0000

What happens if you received lots of spam comment like that? Search them one by one?

blurryleo: { well, usually spams are almost the same. either they have too many links or they will contain comment that is totally irrelevant to what you have posted. that will be a good way to do a first parse of filtering }

By: Cher

Cher — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:16:07 +0000

How about those spams that are apparently from someone who just wanted to promote their blogs? The blogs I’m talking about are the normal personal blogs, which owners desire for more traffic, hence simply leave a comment or chat without forgetting the links to their own blogs? Honestly&personally, those are pretty annoying too. My 2 cent.

blurryleo: { well, since that you made the comment above, I assume that you can tell them out easily. You can always choose to have your comments moderated. If you find that annoying and do not wish for those to be displayed, just disapprove and have it deleted }