Comment Spam on The Blog Deleted

Originally published at ArticleSnatch Blog. You can comment here or there.

I'm not sure about other bloggers out there, but we seem to get our fair share of comment spam.  Sure WP-SpamFree catches several hundred per day from automated bots and scripts, which is pretty cool.  I'm glad that they started tracking it and showing me the number of blocked messages in the dashboard - it sure takes the load off of askimet.

However the messages that I still have to go in and remove manually are those from people who didn't read the comment policy - or ignored the message next to the name box that says "no keywords".  Sure this blog is part of the dofollow movement and the commentluv movement, but that doesn't mean your free to leave all the keyword spam you want in the comment field.

So I will continue to remove comments from people who choose to use something other than their name in the name field.  Sometimes if the comment is more than "great post" - i'll allow a site name instead of a name.  But I really don't understand why it is that people who write some great comments choose to have their comments removed instead of displayed, just because they are more concerned about a keyword anchor text link.

So if you want to leave a comment - I would love to have them, but please just use your name.  I really don't like seeing so many great comments go to waste because people chose keywords instead.

Have a great weekend!