Comments on: WordPress Drive-By Comments

By: Funny SMS

Funny SMS — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:44:21 +0000

I was searching for a wordpress plugin and (accidentally) found this post. After reading this, I had to add my comment

You are absolutely right about such comments and commentator. The real problem is, these days most so called SEO guys are offering “commenting services” that do their best to leave their link on your blog. I received so much of that crap on on of my blogs that I had to turn off comments. I would say, one of the best way to fight against this issue is “Automatic Turn off” of comments after certain days (2 week). That works fine for me.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:43:51 +0000

I think one of my blogs got on some top commentators, do follow list and now I am getting spammed daily.

I love the people who post things like this:

“I’ve read a few of your blogs and i think this is the best I’ve seen. Its an organized, easy to read blog. Thank you for sharing this with us.”

By: Catching Fakers :

Catching Fakers : — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:30:27 +0000

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By: Templates Magazine

Templates Magazine — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:52:35 +0000

I see, comment is always be a problem for a “big” blog. But for me, I think using comment moderation is enough.

By: Finance Information

Finance Information — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:15:13 +0000

Long time ago one of my blogs had driven by many “cr*p” comments. People got thirsty with back links making my blog very dirty. What did I do with my no “no-follow” blog? I change it to no-follow.

By: ftopics

ftopics — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:54:17 +0000

Any way to comment which is not done by hands and enabled mind, which is not focused to topic of post is no sense. If you are commenting to get some link then write something which have sense and have value form blog owner. Many people want to get tons of links by using some kind of spamming tools with same comment on every blog, of course comments like than will not be approved and there is not effect.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:48:55 +0000

Well you basically restated what I did in the post so what do you want me to tell you? If your comment is approved then I determined that it isn’t spam or a drive-by comment.

By: Alec

Alec — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:20:50 +0000

Hi,

I do some commenting and like a link from the comment, …

I’m not quite sure where the line is with this and would appreciate your opinion here.

Firstly, I tend to think any comment should be well thought out, relevent to the post and the post should be fully read. I think you should try in at least some small way to add value to the post.

I also tend to check back to see any further discussion.

For example, if this comment is driven by a link (but I am after the clarificatio here) is it spam?

Appreciate any optionion here.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:42:25 +0000

Because Blogger sucks.

By: Sunday

Sunday — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:12:46 +0000

Oh… and I will say that I have had a Blogger blog for over 3 years and never had this problem, so what is blogger doing that the Wordpress Platform is not?