06 January 2009

Spam, spam, spam

Do you respond to spam comments?

I certainly don't. I did not start blogging to provide a free advertising platform for various corporations, traders or sleeze merchants.

I have been getting a fair number of spammers leaving comments lately and have made a point of deleting them. Their pitch makes usually it sound like you visited their site and that they are really enjoying yours - come on Nike Air Jordan shoes what do you take me for. I certainly will not be buying your shoes.

Then today I received 57 comments from what I can only assume to be a sleeze merchant, that glories in the name of Sex. What they are saying I have no idea, as the writing appears to be Chinese. I have no intention of visiting that site either and will base my assessment of it on its name. I do not want these comments on my site so ove the next few days will be pressing the delete button.

For self protection against spam, I will resort to comment moderation for a while, so please bear with me..
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10 comments:

  1. Never Say Never Greyhounds6 January 2009 at 21:07

    Yikes! That sucks. So much for getting reconized as a Noteworthy Blog. Hope mine never gets noted.

    I have enjoyed your blog. I like reading about other countries and places. I'm from the US.

    Jen

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  2. Sarah6 January 2009 at 21:18

    I share your frustrations! I don't even have that many followers, but there always seems to be a spammer in my inbox. Comment moderation seems to get rid of it. :)

    Have a great Tuesday!!!

    Sarah

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  3. Katney6 January 2009 at 21:23

    I haven't had any for a while, even though I have removed both moderationa nd word verification. I guess I am lucky. When I do, I definitely remove. When I see it on another blogger's comments, I try to let them know.

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  4. Max-e6 January 2009 at 22:52

    Hi All, clearing 7 sleeze comments plasted all over my site did not take too long, but it was a nuisance. thanks for the comments

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  5. Raph G. Neckmann6 January 2009 at 23:08

    I use comment moderation and word verification. I like using both these, because comment moderation means I don't inadvertently overlook any comments from my readers, and also word verification is a source of much humour among bloggers! Creating words and meanings from the 'words' sharpens my wits, (or so I like to believe!)

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  6. Max-e6 January 2009 at 23:18

    Oops! Did I say 7. I mean 57

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  7. Swubird7 January 2009 at 07:25

    Max-e:

    So interesting. I never seen anything like them.

    Happy trails.

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  8. Firefly the Travel Guy7 January 2009 at 11:47

    I've been lucky so far and have pnly had one spam comment. I also hope they leave me alone.

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  9. Ferdi en Mimi16 January 2009 at 13:54

    Maybe this can help you, its safe and free for personal users, it gets almost all spam out of your mail, take a look on this site..

    http://www.spamfighter.com/Product_Info.asp

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  10. Gerald (SK14)27 January 2009 at 15:45

    That chinese sex one pops up a lot and is especially dodgy I think.

    I do feel that having word-verification + moderation is a bit excessive. If you are moderating comments you don't really need w-v as well - it puts off genuine commentators more than it does spammers.

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