Are you a professional journalist? You write very well.

thunderbird · 08-12-2009, 10:45 AM

As soon as I see a comment like that on my blogs, alarm bells go off. I just don't trust flattery. And, just as I suspected, the exact same praise, word for word, appears on a hundred other blogs.

dvduval · 08-13-2009, 08:21 AM

I suppose you can no follow their links, especially if that IP address has not made any other worthwhile comments.

mikestenger · 08-13-2009, 09:43 AM

98% of the time I see comments like that, it's spam where they throw their link in with what "copy & paste" they have to say and/or in the name field it's "How To Make Money With Google" or whatever.

I use Akismet for spam and it works like a charm.

loopylove · 01-25-2010, 05:42 AM

you have to admire their creativity though

On my blog, it tickles me when they post stuff like Does anyone know the best way to make the most of {insert your own product here} ?

TerrieS · 01-25-2010, 07:29 AM

I have one blog where I allow comments just to see what people write. It's how I keep my finger on the pulse of the commenting community!

Dan C. Rinnert · 01-25-2010, 09:38 AM

I always enjoy the ones that say they don't agree with everything I said, but I made a good point, especially when such a comment appears on a post that was just a photo or a joke or something else that you really wouldn't agree or disagree with.

Sometimes, spammers just make it too easy for me to identify them.

Elmer Hurlstone · 01-25-2010, 10:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by thunderbird

Are you a professional journalist? You write very well.

As soon as I see a comment like that on my blogs, alarm bells go off. I just don't trust flattery. And, just as I suspected, the exact same praise, word for word, appears on a hundred other blogs.

And, just as I was about to put on my "big-time-writer" hat, you come along and dash my hopes into the ground.

So, I guess I'm not that special after all?

Nutz!

Elmer

IMChick · 01-25-2010, 11:37 AM

Sigh, look what I'm missing after I locked down the blog comments section! Comment management seems like too big of a hassle for very little return. If someone really wants to contact me, there's a contact address somewhere that opens up into my circular file.

ShaneRQR · 01-25-2010, 01:20 PM

I sometimes get human-seeming comments like that as well. However, if you check the links, you'll find that in almost 100% of the cases, every comment that does not directly relate to or refer to something you wrote in that particular article is actually a spam comment.

Humans almost always refer to specific content. Bots make general statements (sometimes even eloquently).

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