During last months, I’ve received a great number of comment-approval WordPress notification emails. Why? Because I moderate every comment posted in this blog (unless a previous comment from the same author has been approved before).
Why do I do such a thing? Well, as you probably know I receive a few comments for each post and most of them are written by my frequent readers. So, if someone new to my blog post a comment, I am told.
But to be honest, that is not the real reason behind my choice. The real reason is handmade spam comments. It seems that globalization has landed and some people use the Internet as a cheap advertising platform. I’m not talking about banners or AdWords; I’m talking about posting open-ended comments in blogs like this:
Author : Luis (IP: 217.126.99.185 , 185.Red-217-126-99.staticIP.rima-tde.net)
E-mail : lkanada@gmail.com
URL : http://www.provicsa.com
Whois : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=217.126.99.185
Comment:
Ups! I was looking for something like that for months! Thanks!
At first glance, it seems to be someone being grateful to me because I made his/her life better with my post. But if you visit this page, you realize you’ve been spammed. There is a trend with handmade spam comments: most of them come from India or America (North and South), but they started coming from Spain too. Oh sh**!
This comment was submitted to USB Icon Specification post and, for the record, what kind of retard would be looking for USB Icon Spec for months?
Most of people who work in handmade spam doesn’t seem to know that WordPress and the major CMS applies the rel=nofollow to links in comments.
Finally, let me tell you something. If you are dubious about allowing something, then don’t allow such a comment. Comments which doesn’t add any insights or ideas to conversation should be removed immediately in spite of being said by other bloggers.
