Love Dofollow, Hate Human Comment Spam!
Did “Love” leave me a message? Or is this an attack of human comment spam?
I set Wordpress to email me every message. Yesterday, got a message from a visitor named “Love”, who evidently “loved” my pattern for a hand knit sock.
New comment on your post #733 “Double Decrease: Sl1, k2tog, psso.”
Author : Love (IP: 124.29.209.249 , 124.29.209.249)
E-mail : salman.soha@gmail.com
URI : http://www.find-dating-services.us/
Whois: http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl? queryinput= 124.29.209.249
Comment:
I <a href= “http://www.find-dating-services.us/”
rel=”nofollow”> love </a> the zag sock pattern. That is so coolYou can see all comments on this post here: http://www.[…]
To flag this comment as spam, visit: http://www.thedietdiary.com/blog/wp-.[…]
I checked the whois for the IP; evidently “love” connects through the Asian Pacific Network. Natch!
You know, I’m thrilled “Love” loves my sock patern; it’s a very cute sock pattern, and I’ve knit some for myself. Nevertheless, I flagged the item as comment spam; now Akismet can protect other bloggers from this “Love” who “loves” my sock patterns and who probably loves stuff at your blog too!
I’d also like to send a news flash to Love’s employer: they didn’t get a “follow” link for even one milisecond. Lucia’s Linky Love suppressed “dofollows” because Love didn’t leave 3 messages with matching “name”, “domain” and “email”. Spam Karma is never going to let “Love” leave three messages quickly enough for me not to delete them all.
If you run a dating service and want to get a link on one of my blogs, try to hire my through Pay Per Post. Or ReviewMe. Or even TLA. Or. . .
Oh, but I don’t run ads for dating services. So, you are S.O.L.!
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9 Responses to “Love Dofollow, Hate Human Comment Spam!”
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Bu-bu-bu-busted! Ha ha.
Do-Follow is cool and all (that’s how I got here) but it does have its abusers.
Hey Lucia, thanx for all your guidance and expertise in this area! You have made some great plug-ins for Tricia and I so I just want to take the time and say thanx for your help!
Chris & Tricia
Chris,
You’re welcome. I use all my plugins too. (I’m personally loving Kontera Control.)
I’m glad I went to the effort of figuring out how to make these plugins instead of just modifing my own template. Writing the plugin makes it easier for me to deal with my three blogs!
Also, in the case of human’s leaving human comment spam, I figured we all needed a “dofollow” plugin that lets us reign in this behavior.
Even the lowest wage laborer still costs way more than a ’spam bot. So if people don’t get the “follow” reward for leaving comments like the one above, then they we won’t see much of this type of human comment spam.
It’s an unfortunate aspect of being a do-follow blogger. It’s a great way to get the community involved, but spam, and pointless comments soon follow.
Wish there was a middle ground
Thanks for the comment!
I wrote a new do-follow plugin to try to enforce a middle ground. I find the human comment spammers tend to leave 1 comment at each blog. They don’t get follows until they leave 3 at mine. They usually give up and go to someone else’s blog.
I said in another comment that I’ve been a do follow blogger for almost a year. It’s only in the last month to six weeks that do follow comment spam has been a real problem. It’s increased substantially and I HATE it.
Love’s been hitting my sites too. I’m glad Love Loves what I talk about but I I don’t care for the links. They’ve been sent to Akismet too.
Akismet Rocks… Why you want to be do-follow?
Its ironic that you talk about this but you actually use no follow.
@Bape, I follow after three matching comments. If you look up, you’ll see “Tricia” has that many, the rest have fewer. When they (or you) return and comment using the same “name”, “email” and “domain”, your comments will follow.