Jan 10
Not That Kind of Comment
Most bloggers will tell you that it’s always nice to get comments. Well, that’s true, unless the comments are spam, pointing to porn sites or credit card scams or other dubious stops along the Information Super-highway.
I logged on while at lunch today and saw that I had 4 comments waiting for moderator approval. Wouldn’t you know it: all four were spam.
They love me, they really love me. The feeling is not mutual, so I’ve activated an additional spam filter that Wordpress offers. We’ll see how it works.
In the meantime, if you don’t have a porn site and aren’t trying to lure people into some fraudulent scam, feel free to say hello.
January 10th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
We get some doozies at Home Ec 101. Some are revolting and it’s only text. We took down our forums due to SPAM.
January 11th, 2008 at 12:25 am
Oh, look! Two comments…and one of them is spam.
January 11th, 2008 at 1:57 am
I don’t think any of the three are spam.
All three make reference to the point of the post, after all.
January 11th, 2008 at 6:29 am
Sort of depends on one’s definition of spam, doesn’t it? I consider unsolicited, commercial messages, irregardless of what is being sold, to be spam. I guess, in your definition, if what the commenter is selling is something faith-based or related to religion, then it isn’t spam in your book.
January 11th, 2008 at 8:44 am
The fact that it related to religion, Wil, had nothing to do with my original choice to allow the post to come through. I find that to be a rather insulting idea, frankly.
Consider me fooled — I personally approved that comment, not Akismet — by the fact that it initially acknowledged the post itself, which is something most spambots are not able to do. I took it as a reasonable diversion because I’ve been posting a good deal about politics lately.
In any case, I checked the website address that was mentioned, and find that it is invalid. So I’ve changed my mind and removed the comment. Perhaps I’ll add a few things to my typical inner spam-test.
January 11th, 2008 at 11:30 am
Hi, Patrick!
January 11th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
No clue what the majority of this chain of comments is about, but I hate spam regardless of its provenance and final location. So I’m just saying hello.