Bizarre blog comments
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It’s been a few months since I began blogging, and while I’m now getting regular quality comments, for every 1 there are 20+ spam. Most of them are either blatant adverting or gibberish, but occasionally you get a gem like these.
Kamikaze pilots have large helmets.
Wouldn’t want to bump your head as you fly a plane loaded with explosives into a battle ship.
I’m in oil!
Oh no!
Win the girl of your dreams, grow your tomatoes.
So tomatoes are the key to a woman’s heart, so much for chocolate and flowers.
Very insightful.
I especially like the tone.
All blogs should do this.
Great example you are setting here.
Really, I mean that sincerely.
All the best, from your friend.
Why do I get the feeling some subliminal messaging is at work here…
I just love your weblog! Very nice post! Still you can do many things to improve it.
Buy Viagrax.
Nothing helps you write like lead in your pencil.
Hello,
Did you ever think about creating your very own blog? There are many excellent platforms, but by far the best is WordPress.
I have thought about creating a wordpress blog, this one as it happens…
I won’t bore your with the rest of the message as its quite long, but it goes on to tell me all about this great service he is recommending that created his create his custom wordpress theme before forgetting to leave the address in his comment. Super.
What’s the time?
12:20 at the moment…
I wanted you to know that. I work with you, and I love you.
I’m self employed, so either I have schizophrenia or maybe my muse has a thing for me…
I know this has nothing to do with what you wrote, but I found this great website for free ring tones www.website.com.
P.S. Don’t be an ass, this is not spam.
Oh it’s not spam? My mistake, because I totally thought it was.
Hello,
Please check my blogs:
( Insert 10 website address’ here )This is nooooo spam! Really!
See, again I’d have been wrong. It’s a good thing people are thoughtful enough to point out that they’re not spamming you.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Well, obviously.
Hmm…
They’re almost funny enough to make the spam worth while, almost…
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Love the subliminal Viagra one, ha ha.
Steve,
The things they’ll try, hey? Doesn’t quite make me want to run out and buy any.
Have you got the askimet WP plugin installed? It works wonders!
Andrew,
Absolutely. It saves me 100+ spam a day sometimes that I don’t have to sort through. Just good to pluck out a few entertaining ones ;)
Maintaining a dofollow blog makes moderating comments a little bit tougher but the good thing is that I’ve given up Akismet long time ago and used WP Spam Free instead.
There are occasional spam though but are pretty much manageable.
Mathdelane,
True, any kind of link benefit attracts spammers like crazy. I think it’s worth helping anyone who takes the time to leave a genuine comment though so I’ll persevere.
Akismet seems to do the job though? I have a quick scan through comments flagged as spam each day as occasionally a legitimate comment slips though, but it seems to work fine for me.
Haha, “Don’t be an ass, this not spam” So many subliminal messages. I wonder if these are real people or just bots crawling web sites.
I get gibberish with links to web sites that don’t exist.. I have no idea what this means.
Omar,
I’m sure it’s bots but obviously someone entered the information initially. I just wonder who they think is falling for this?
I got this one the other day…
“Where did you got this much info on your blog from?? Also can I take the initiave to take the feeds from your blog for my yoga website??”
…Yes, please take my articles about criminology, psychology and forensic methods and put them on your yoga website.
And this…
“We need more executions by firing squad. Simple Effective – The next best reality TV show”
And I had one about the genetics of brown bears in Alaska the other day too
Ewan,
That’s some harsh reality TV there…