At the beginning of this month I warned you that you would be getting loads and loads of “almost human” comments that just didn’t sound right, Don’t be fooled by next gen comment spamming. Well, I have another set of them and each one is worse than the last:
How about those guys, eh? Long story short, please look for some of these things when you consider passing comments through Askismet or when you’re looking through your approved comments — because I know you’re hungry for comments and I know you might consider pushing them through just to get a comment count — but please reconsider:
- Is the comment directly relevant to either your blog post or a previous comment?
- Does the commenter come from another blog, from Twitter, or a social network?
- Related, does the commenter link back to a commercial or ecommerce site?
- Is the comment simply supportive or adoring but not specific?
- Is the grammar bizarre and stilted? (Bad grammar is par for the course online)
Well, if you have a spate of comments that are suffering from the above, please be vigillant and please delete them with extreme prejudice.
Sadly (and comment spammers please take note), since I don’t receive very many comments on my blogs, I am always rooting for the spammers because where these spammers to really offer value, be relevant, and actually spend some time reading the post and making a proper witty or insightful comment, I would pass it through — I have done it before as a little reward for commenting and doing it right (I am sure you have, too).
Would you pass shamelessly self-promoting comment spam if the commenter were to spend some time being witty, charming, relevant, and contextual? Please let me know in the comments!
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