In the recent weeks, I have gotten quite a bit of not-quite-but-nearly-totally-spam-that-duisguises-really-well. As a result, I removed my DoFollow plugin.
But I don’t really like that solution.
I think I might change my approach and make a new commenting policy rule. A quite simple one at that: Every comment that uses some kind of product name as their “name” will be deleted (also those who were made before today), no questions asked, and I re-establish the DoFollow plugin.
I can always delete the links that lead to sites I don’t want to support afterwards, although I’d of course need to introduce an explicit disclaimer for that as well. (Luckily, my current disclaimer reads “I reserve the right to delete spam as I see fit, even if it’s handcrafted”, so I won’t break any promises if I delete things that are spammier than I like retroactively).
On the other hand, I really love your contributions, and I really don’t want to make contributing with comments harder than it apparently already is…
What do you think? How do you handle that kind of thing in your own blog(s)?
February 27th, 2011 @ 18:26
We noticed that your blog is dofollow. We just launched the first blogs dofollow search engine and we have also indexed your blog. This will increase the visitors. You have our url on our name on this commnent. We will be very happy if you will also give us a hand in promoting it by adding our url somewhere on your blog.
February 27th, 2011 @ 21:04
That’s quite interesting. I write a blog post, complaining about how my dofollow is exploited by idiots who abuse it for spamming irrelevant advertisement instead of interesting content, and I explain how in the future, only comments with a real name will be accepted.
And you have the nerve of adding me to your spammable blog search engine.
Dear Mr. Dofollow WordPress (since that must be your real name), you haven’t understood a word of my post.