By now, you would think that people would realize that generic comments get deleted and very likely marked as spam. Most blogs run Akismet (we don't), but WordPress still uses Akismet to flag comments as spam. Once you are on the "spammer" list your comments immediately either go to spam or get deleted. Do you know what comment spam is versus how to comment well? Don't comment like this: Any comment that has a bunch of niceties one after another is going to get deleted by bloggers who … [Read more...]
Why it is important to moderate comments on blogs
This is a guest post from Rubab Saleem of Pakistan Times. Hopefully I can get her to add a bio shortly. My apologies if the lack of author attribution when this post went live caused any confusion. WordPress accesses are set up incorrectly. Using contributor status is like blogging in a black hole because you can't edit or see what you have written once you submit it. Because of that I provide author access but that allowed this post to be published before I had seen it or I would have asked … [Read more...]
New Type of Scraped Comment Blog Spam
Image by Getty Images via Daylife The spammers took their games up another notch today with a new type of blog spam that scrapes one of the blogger's own comments and/or someone else's real comment and reposts it as a "new" comment in the same post. This makes the comments seem relevant to the post and might result in their slipping them more successfully into blogs. Wouldn't you think someone sharp enough to do such a thing could find a more productive way to spend their time? The good news … [Read more...]
