DISQUS

Benway Net: Small mini rant for Sunday

  • Karmin · 10 months ago
    On my blog I get tired of these comments. On days when I am in a good mood I tolerate them but on my cranky days I hit the spam option and eventually their url will end up on the askimet spam list.
    I am totally ok with commenting for a link, but what gets me is those sites that are hiring people from other countries to do this for them.
  • Svetlana Gladkova · 10 months ago
    I guess this is a problem for many bloggers - as soon as you get some readers and pagerank they begin to chase popular posts to add a link (with some of them even trying to overcome the no-follow tag for their links). But I think the poor quality of comments is totally understandable - I've seen people offering to buy comments in batch for mere cents on forums for webmasters. I only wonder if there's some information on how many of such crappy comments get approved and how many are sorted out like spam as I guess many bloggers are less generous than you are.
  • Tom · 9 months ago
    Many of those "thanks, you helped me with... " comments are automaticaly generated by bots. It's not really the matter of deleting them because since their ammount is overwhelming. You'll hit spam button twice and meanwhile 5 others bloggers will approve their comments just so they can brag about having so much commenters.
  • jayb · 9 months ago
    Well I finally got sick of ID not blocking the spam comments and turned it off. Hope the new filters I installed stop these junk comments.
    But we still have link luv!!