Pips Spam
Look what I found in the Akismet bin “Big Bucks Blogger”:
Pips | pipsnet@freenet.de | pipsnet-technology.com | IP: 78.51.114.143
This is an interesting blog. I´m here for the second time and find every day new interesting details.
I also found it in in Akismet for “The Knitting Fiend”:
Pips | pipsnet@freenet.de | pipsnet-technology.com | IP: 78.51.114.143
This is an interesting blog. I´m here for the second time and find every day new interesting details.
Pips sure is an interesting name for a spammer who visits blogs twice.
When I searched “This is an interesting blog.” “time and find every day new interesting details”, I discovered that Pips has hit lots of interesting blogs.
If you’ve been hit, you may want to delete any comments left by “Pip” of “pipsnet-technology.com”. Or at least make them nofollow. Lucia’s Linky Love would would let you follow most your links, while nofollowing Pips. After all, he never visits three times. 
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Thanks for letting me know. I find it interesting, pips does have a blog, looks like he started it late August. Except for his disclosure post and a post of the DoFollow list, it seems all his other posts are paid posts, hard to tell, but he only has a few posts anyway.
Great, a Post only for me. But it´s wrong. I´m not a spammer and I don´t get money (unfortunately).
If I see two nice pictures or blogs, I possibly write the same comment. I think it is not wrong. Also I found this post. I´m not only short here. I read a lot (also older posts). All this is not the nature from spammer.
I´m sorry to bother you. That is not my intention. Feel you free to write a comment in my blog.
And sorry for my english. I´m German
Pips, the problem isn’t your English. It’s that the comments you post absolutely, totally completely identical comments at many blogs. They are uninformative and contribute nothing to the conversation.
Even if you happen to like the post, and even if your English is poor, that’s called spam.
Today’s comment is fine. Bloggers understand that some visitors don’t speak English as a first language. But, today, you demonstrated that if you want to leave a real comment, you can. So, I’m leaving your comment up.
But… I’m also stripping your URL for now– to defer giving you a follow for a bit longer than most visitors. Because, quite honestly, I remain suspicious.
Be good: visit blogs and leave real comments. You may manage to make blog friends!
Week and half ago I went through a do follow list of about 300 blogs. I think it was the one from feverishthoughts.com
Out of 300 hundred blogs I only subscribed to 13. Yours was one! I read and write thoughtful comments too. Most of the do follow blogs suck in my opinion. They are mostly new too and I don’t want to read crap. Most of these blogs will die in less than a year I can tell…
Anyways I kept seeing PIPS in all the mybloglog avatars on the sidebars of most all the blogs I was looking at. I was like you damn spammer!
This is his commment on my blog–
“it looks good. great.”
Thanks dude,
Boris,
PS installing Lucias Link Love when I get to it.
THe do follow party is over… At least Pips has been back to read my blog and I guess he is keeping up with this one too…
Small world!
@Boris: Welcome to my blog, and thanks for the compliment!
I visited Dofollow blogs too, especially when I first learned of the list.
Some dofollow good, but not in the niche that interested me. (I imagine if you ran across my knitting blog, you wouldn’t subscribe even if it were the best knitting blog in the world.)
Some are flat out bad. Some are in the niche that interests me and I like getting the benefit of a link when I comment.
I like the dofollow movement, and obviously, I’m staying with it. But, I also knew it needed a better plugin to stop rewarding people from behaving like Pip. (And make it easier for bloggers to notice Pip-like behavior before they give that a follow.)
That’s not what any blogger wants to see in comments.
I am installing the plugin tonight! Its not named after you is it?
Why does it seem all these new blogs are about making money too? Don’t people have hobbies they are passionate about? There was hardly any niche blog topics in the do follow list. At least none that were eco friendly…
Knitting is a niche. Its definitely not my passion but I am going to start some fashion niches soon…
@Boris, Yep, I’m the Lucia in “Lucia’s Linky Love”. I was tempted to call it “Lucia Liljegren’s Linky Love”, but then I’d really have to abbreviate to “LLLL”
Yes. Knitting is a niche, and I’ve had that blog forever. That’s technically my “main” blog, but I post there only when I have reached a useful point in a stage in knitting. Since knitting is slow, it doesn’t update constantly.
I started this one when I wanted to monetize. I find blogging what I learn is useful for me– I can find it later. I didn’t initially expect this one to get traffic– it was, strangely enough for me.
But then… because unlike other people who jumped into blogging about blogging and making money, I decided to:
a) write plugins to solve problems for bloggers
b) write really detailed tutorials answering questions I see at places like the Postie board, and
c) my point of view can be different from others in this niche,
I’ve developed some traffic.
Someday, I may even reveal what my “real job” is (which may further explain why I have “different” points of view. It’s part time, paid hourly and consumes between 5-30 hours a week. (I try to keep it lower but my boss would like it higher.)
I had to do it today, and my boss thought of all sorts of things only one of two people can do, and the other one is too busy, so no blog posts!
Pips is just one and I let some of his comments that were on topic remain.
I have expanded my comment section again:
Please use your name or blog name, and not “real estate king,” “credit card master,” “life after bankruptcy,” etc. If your website is not a blog that allows comments, your comment here will be deleted. This blog is not a vehicle for your promotion.
Wow you develop these programs too! Thats great.
Can’t wait until my day job becomes my part-time!
See you in the RSS reader…
Boris (refinancing mortgage)- what should be my blog name!
I found it interesting that Pips left a comment under my DoFollow list, it said, I like DoFollow. Have Fun.
I didn’t approve the comment because he had very similar comments under various posts at my site. About a week later, he left the EXACT same comment. Sheesh, I’m glad he likes DoFollow, but he could at least say why he likes it.
For now, I’m not approving his comments at my site. Unless he decides to start contributing to the conversation with a well thought out response like I see he did here.