Comments on: Rubbish Commenters Update

By: Todd Morris

Todd Morris — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:09:18 +0000

Hi Rhys,

I actually requested to be on the D-list a few months back, but at the time I was using the comment luv plun-in, and not following until someone made 3 comments (not a terribly high barrier). I was turned away … because I wasn’t using the true dofollow plugin.

In hindsight, after reading your posts, it’s probably not such a bad thing that I didn’t make the list.

Think that being DoFollow can help to increase the interaction on a blog … but, there’s no doubt at all that it’s also being abused by many people who don’t know any better … and quite a few more who do (or at least should) no better.

Todd

By: Danny

Danny — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:43:20 +0000

Hehe, funny post. I haven’t had any problems like that on my blog yet, but perhaps when I get a bit more well known I’ll be fighting off the comment spam too!

By: Bush Mackel

Bush Mackel — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:16:04 +0000

You know, after putting in the math spam protection, my spam has dropped WAY down. But if starts hiking up again, I think I’ll start changing their links to my site. Thanks for the thought ha ha

By: Donovan

Donovan — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:17:34 +0000

I get tons of these comments from Courtney’s D-List myself, but I don’t give a rat’s ass about them anymore. It’s too much work to sift through the hundreds of spam comments every day, so I just delete what Akismet catches and leave the rest.

Autoblog pingbacks are much more of a nuisance than keyword stuffed comments, IMHO. My Wii Contests blog gets tons of these pingbacks every time I post a new contest and it drives me insane. I’m certainly not going to pass any Google juice to a content stealing, do nothing website or blog.

Thanks for allowing me to vent; I feel much better now.

By: Carly

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That’s the crap Ive got in my spam queue at the moment… Those damn ones that take the title of the post and use it keep ‘getting’ me, I keep thinking they are actually valid comments.