Comments on: How to Spot Clueless Idiotic Human Spam Comments

By: SBA

SBA — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:48:13 +0000

Welcome Brankica,
Good that GASP is working so well for you — less for you to 'gasp' about when reading some of that spam! Yes, human are better than bots when it comes to getting past the filters. If only they had more productive ways to make money without messing up our parade…

Laughing is good. Glad we could help!

By: Brankica

Brankica — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 08:49:37 +0000

I have installed GASP plugin and since then I don't have any bot spam comments.

But, humans are worse. Just today I had two comments from the same person. Different name, same surname, anchor linking from the comment, to the same site, one link to home page one to a category.

Of course both comments had nothing to do with any of the posts. So although they were posted by a person and not a bot – delete.

I have a comment policy on my blog and I would never allow stupid comments like that go through.

Great post, both this one and replying to those spam comment, I had a good laugh.
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By: SBA

SBA — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 21:11:07 +0000

Hi Dorothy,

You're taking the right steps by trashing and removing links if the comment adds value but whose link is clearly promoting a commercial site rather than a blog, As for keywords in name, (Landscapers Brisbane), it's like your comment which has not gravatar [hint. hint.] — if you name was "nursery cribs" instead of "dorothy' I'd probably put in spam. Of course the text of your comment is redeeming (lol). So if someone has 100 spam to review, they may just dump our comment.

If you use Askimet, you can set options to automatically delete spam on post over 30 days old. Spammers are (un-)intelligent enough to think bloggers don't respond to old comments — too busy keeping up with the homepage comments! If only it were so…

I like the overall look of your site. As for few comments you may want to comment more on related blogs, add twitter idea (and post, retweet others) and be more personable than "Admin" — you already state your name on About Me page, so use it…
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By: Dorothy Ray

Dorothy Ray — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 20:08:00 +0000

Thanks so much for this information on spammy comments. I've been getting nothing but for the four months I've had my blog up . I think there have been maybe five real comments. I trash many, or delete their web site before publishing. But I didn't really understand about the key words in their titles. So glad to know I can safely trash many more than I've been doing. Oh, of course all these comments are on the earliest posts I made, which has sort of mystified me.

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By: Brix

Brix — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:24:34 +0000

Though I would like to be very lenient when it comes to implementing "Commenting Guidelines" on my blog but that would make my readers feel they are obliged to reply in a certain way. I'll read every comment in my blog may it be intellectual, silly, or borderline spam.

By: timethief

timethief — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:47:35 +0000

I Have found that posting a comment policy on my sites and sticking to it has been a good move t6o make. I no longer have to ddiscuss and debate why comments made were not posted. Thus frees up my time so I can use it on research and blogging. Also after I posted a comment policy on my blogs I found that those who were using keywords in the name field dropped from several every day to zero in a 3 week time span.

If I did not take the time to read my comments and check out the links on my personal blog I would not have detected those that were auto-generated by software, and those that lead back to casinos, drug and flesh peddling sites. I get at least 20 such such comments every day and they all end up in the spam filter as I have educated both Akismet and Defensio to select them out.

BTW I'd like to second what Mr. I says there are obviously many people out there who are only looking for the lowest price possible when hiring comment writers. How pathetic.

By: Matt - Zero 2 Hero

Matt - Zero 2 Hero — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:29:05 +0000

I think its very important to post a 'Commenting Guidelines' somewhere on the page. Especially once your blog reaches a certain level where its harder to keep tabs on every person commenting.

By: Mr. I

Mr. I — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:58:35 +0000

Well, the real problem is that people do not care about English of person they are hiring!

They care about lowest price!

I have seen this a lot as a freelancer! People look for crazy prices like "$1 for every 500 words"! And they get people to work at these prices. I am still clueless how those "content writers" make up living. That's just an example. There's a huge market on web for such work. Sadly, people prefer quantity over quality and this the root of this problem!

By: Sebastyne

Sebastyne — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:34:37 +0000

It seems like such a big trouble to go through for just one link that most likely will be deleted, doesn't it? It would be a lot easier and far more efficient to just read the post, at least enough of it to actually make a reasonable comment – really it's not rocket science. Unfortunately, when the SEO person who is promoting a company in Australia is not a native speaker, things get tricky. If they cannot even form a sentence in a way that it makes sense, it is very likely they can't understand what the post is about. What do we learn about this? Don't hire people who can't speak your language to promote your business, unless you hire them to promote your business in their country. Common sense, really.