DISQUS

3gp · 2 years ago

I think it is over hyped every one is talking about it. It is not worthy enough to be discussed.

Brown Baron · 2 years ago

I was wondering why the number of spam caught by Akismet was increasing over the last few days. It's probably connected to this.

Everton · 2 years ago

Le Baron

It's probably because Akismet isn't the fastest to adapt and spam levels have increased in general over the last 10 days. You should switch to SK2 - you won't regret it

Angie · 2 years ago

I have no qualms whatsoever about leaving the meat of a comment and stripping out the URL and even a company name. It's a lot of additional work for me, bu i actually mod all comments right now. I really do need to get a good spam filter system in place, but I read reviews for each of them and it seems that genuine comments sometimes sift into the spam catch.

Mike · 2 years ago

I'm disappointed to see the likes of Wendy Piersall dropping DoFollow and even Chris Garrett considering doing so purely on the basis of this new "service". I won't be dropping DoFollow unless it has an adverse affect on my site. What I may do, though, is review my comment policy so that I will only accept comments where people use their real name or a non-product/site related handle.

Brown Baron · 2 years ago

A lot of people are saying SK2 is better than Akismet. I think I'll go take a look at SK2. Thanks EB.

Shankar · 2 years ago

May be you should add the image verifycation method to avoid a few spammers. In one of my forum, I added a checkbox near the login form saying "I am not a spam" and the forums logs in only when u tick that checkbox. This simple idea reduced the spammers by 90%. and only a hardcore human spammer who is dare to do these thing come now which is easy to block. :)

Everton · 2 years ago

@Shankar

That won't help solve this problem - as human 'spammers' will just keep doing what they are doing

Aaron · 2 years ago

I guess I somewhat disagree with your notion. The reason that most people comment at all is because they can call attention to their own site or blog. If this wasn't true why would they even bother putting their website in the website field on the comment form - just like everyone who has posted a comment here has... So, are they ALL spam. Your argument would seem to say yes, even though they are relevant. 95% of the time people comment to call attention to their own site - simple as that. So, if the comments you buy are really relevant, there's little difference...

And anyone posting here can't argue otherwise - they put their URL in the optional Website field.

Kline · 2 years ago

I don't think you can really stop real human scammers. I mean, if I were to target a niche, say SEO, I could type up about 10-50 actual long relevent targetted comments, and then just copy/paste my way through 100s of blog posts.. Every article I can find on buyblogcomments, I can just post this comment I've written right here. Anyone who would have blogged about these guys probably will write about the same thing, and.. who would actually see this comment here as a piece of spam??

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//comment template off//.. no.. i'm not really doing this, but I could see how a comment like my lame one above could make it through any 'human filter' out there. Honestly, right now, its not even about the # of backlinks you have, its about the quality, so a targetted attack like this, I do it enough times, I could rank #2 for buyblogcomments if I really wanted to....

yay. on to start my lame empire

Collin LaHay · 2 years ago

I wouldn't be surprised if WordPress was forced to add nasty image verifications to the comments, as I don't see any other solution. =(

Sophie · 2 years ago

I can't decide what to do on my blogs - I hate spam so much I tend to want every last protection from it, but if it reduces the number of comments and prevents decent debate then that's gonna kill the blog eventually.

I do think it depends on the industry you are in and how many people who are reading your site are likely to have their own site. If it's, say, 90%, then you're bound to get more comments if you dofollow and allow URLs...but then the quality of comments probably goes down. It's a balance.

Sound of Music · 2 years ago

Now what's wrong with drawing attention? What about those of us who can't afford buying the stuff? And the owner also gets traffic from this, so ...

Data Entry · 1 year ago

I do think it depends on the industry you are in and how many people who are reading your site are likely to have their own site. If it’s, say, 90%, then you’re bound to get more comments if you dofollow and allow URLs…but then the quality of comments probably goes down. It’s a balance

i like socks · 1 year ago

i get some obvious comment spam on my site, but if the comments are thoughtfull and invite discussion then why not let them continue?

some the anchor text makes it obvious comment spam though. i wonder if putting "i like socks" as my achor will be let on this blog??