Akismet blocks most of the spam comments on my blogs, which is great. I check the list of blocked comments, and have only found a handful that were incorrectly marked as spam.
Most of the flagged comments are obvious spam, with long lists of links to dubious sites, or completely off topic remarks with links, or comments in Russian with links. If I can’t understand it, I’m sure not going to approve it! Delete.
A few comments try vague flattery to get their link-bearing comments posted. “This is the best post I’ve ever read on this topic. Keep up the good work!” Delete.
Others try confrontation or controversy. “Your article had great content until the last paragraph. Then you went completely off target.” Delete.
There are a few gems buried in the rubble though. I saw a comment in the Akismet list this week that made me laugh. “I found your blog while searching for first aid for heart attacks.” Really? You took the time to bookmark my site, then came back to make a comment? I hope your dying friend or co-worker wasn’t inconvenienced! Nice try though. Delete.
Have you found any treasures in your pile of spam comments?
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Yeah, I’ve often thought about doing a post on my site about the spam comments – just like this one. Some are quite creative and some just seem to p*ss me off. Especially the real loooong ones that are half full of actual links… then it looks like they got tired of adding the links and just random dirty words or even gibberish after that. You have to scroll thru a couple of screens just to get to the end of that one spam comment. GRRRR!