Comment spam on a WordPress site is something I continue to struggle with. The more popular your WordPress site gets and the more posts you get with a high page rank, the more your WordPress site becomes a target for the spammers. How do you tell what is and isn’t a spam comment? Well, some are obvious and some are left to your better judgment.
I have taken steps on this site to reduce comment spam and if you actually read the fine print just above the comment area on single posts here, you will read what I consider a legitimate comment. I even get some comments saying how they are offended by this site's comment policy. Sorry if I want to keep the spam and unneeded crap off the posts and only show valuable content. Read the post and if you don’t have anything to offer then I hope it helped you. Hey nobody is forcing you to comment so if you don’t like the policy or have no value to add to the conversation then move on.
Anyone who knows me knows that I don’t have much patience for long-winded fluff-filled details. All I want are the facts, I guess it is my way of keeping my limited capacity brain from filling up with unnecessary crap. So goes most of my posts and that is probably what drives my comment policy. So what makes a comment spam?
For this site, any comment that isn’t relevant to the post is considered spam. Some are easily recognizable and some are not. With more and more scripts available to generate comments to spam blogs for backlinks, I had to resort to moderate all comments, meaning that no comment will appear that isn’t personally approved. So what is a spam comment?
Here are some easily recognizable comment spam complete with the misspelling:
- Thanks for this helpful blog.
- I agree with you. Your tips are wonderful!
- thank you !
- is recession time but we have to keep our heads up.good luck to everyone
- Hi, I have just discovered your blog and I feel my RSS reader will love it !
- Oooo! This is a point mentioned. I like when everything in place while it is understandable to mere mortals.
- Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog. Cheers!
- keep doing great job.good luck to everyone
- very helpful.will come back again when I have more time.work keep me busy.
- good info,thanks, ur info
- The author continued with the same spirit.
- dude. You’re cool. Your comments are always welcome – nice and not snarky but not boring either.I am certainly not that way in the post but try.
- Fully agree with you, about a week ago, wrote about etozhe on your blog!.
- Interesting!
- May I …
- not bad …
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