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..

10 comments:

Never Say Never Greyhounds said...

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

Sarah said...

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

Katney said...

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.

Max-e said...

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

Raph G. Neckmann said...

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!)

Max-e said...

Oops! Did I say 7. I mean 57

Swubird said...

Max-e:

So interesting. I never seen anything like them.

Happy trails.

Firefly the Travel Guy said...

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

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Gerald (SK14) said...

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.