Comments on: Keep Your WordPress Comments Clean

By: TiVo Slide

TiVo Slide — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 22:40:08 +0000

I agree 100%. People that dont add to the discussion are just out to do one thing, spam every dang blog they can get their hands on. The worst is when they have software that does it for them so they barely even know what the articles are about…. Love the site!

By: liny

liny — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 03:44:52 +0000

Thanks your post.
I always leave all comments on my blog, it is not means I was a lazy man, just I didn’t want to spend lots of time in delete those dirve-by comments.

By: Internet Marketing | Net Age

Internet Marketing | Net Age — Wed, 12 May 2010 11:33:19 +0000

The challenge lies in getting good quality comments from bona-fide people who are discussing the topic of your blog post. Surely there can be some sort of comment plugin developed that can check for spammy words in comments, along with other things like amount of words or sentences there are in a comment?

You don’t want to hurt the real contributors, but still eliminate the drive by shooters at the same time

By: Jasper

Jasper — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:46:36 +0000

Cool idea, David. Unfortunately, you’d still be left with dozens of “cool blog; thanks” posts throughout your site, even though you would get the satisfaction of pulling their link juice.

By: Lianne

Lianne — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:51:52 +0000

I didnt realise there was such anger towards posters who commented this way. I regularly say thank you and leave a few lines of comment if something has particularly helped/been interesting just because it seems like good manners to at least acknowledge it was useful. I didnt realise they were frowned upon as spam! I feel bad now. I do feel though there is a difference between a genuine comment or thank you and a brief ‘thanks’ which is more about getting a presence going on the site for advertising rather then actually showing an interest in the blog.

A further point, for those who do delete any praise or thank you comments (genuine or not)as a reader/customer I do read other people comments and praise to get a good indictaion of the overall performance of that website. For example, if a tutorial is supposedly good i like to see that it has actually worked for other people before i follow it myself. Otherwise im wary. So its not a bad thing to have genuine recommendation or praise on show… its far worse to have blatant spam and trash because i think that shows neglect and that suggests the information is possibly out of date.

Well thats my thought on it all anyway.

By: Ernest

Ernest — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:23:25 +0000

For me I use the admin must approve option. Then I can screen out manually. This is the effective way for me.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 19 May 2009 21:18:49 +0000

Rob Akismet does a pretty good job but occasionally spams a good post and lets spam through. That is why I try to check comments on a daily basis.

I used a plugin called Spam Karma that has many more options but in the end got the same results as the much simpler Akismet.

By: Rob from Online Poker Rakeback

Rob from Online Poker Rakeback — Tue, 19 May 2009 19:35:46 +0000

I just recently started a blog of my own. I am very particular about the comments I allow. So far, as it is new, I haven’t had to deal with the overwhelming flood of “nice post” comments. I use Aksimet to filter spam, and so far it has caught it all. I wonder though, as my blog gains visibility, is Aksimet an efficient solution for regulating spam or is there a solution that actually works better? If so, in what ways is it more effective?

By: Lee

Lee — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:16:20 +0000

Thanks Jeff…I think )

I guess it’s not just blog owners that are over protective but WordPress is as well!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:46:57 +0000

Lee, the irony of this is that your comment was caught as spam and I pulled it out and approved it.