I Heart Comments
By Keiti | December 16, 2007
I love comments. Seriously. It’s validation that people are actually reading my blog and who can say they don’t love a bit of validation?
So, when I woke up this morning with a comment notice in my inbox (That one was for you, DC), I giggled like a little schoolgirl and popped on over to approve it.
But there was no link to reach this person’s own blog nor any real indication of who it was. I’m the curious sort, so I did a google search on the name and came up with this, which was exactly the same comment I’d received. I was initially excited (before I did the google search) because, well, who doesn’t like a bit of debate every now and then - it keeps things exciting - but since I don’t trust people (generally speaking) as far as I can throw them, I deleted both the comment and my reply and blacklisted the poster.
I don’t know how true any of the speculation at HOEI is, but I’d rather be safe than sorry. So if you get a comment like the one shown at the link, do yourself a favor and just delete it - who wants to have to deal with a potential crazy amount of SPAM?
And to all of you who have visited and left comments on my blog, thank you! I know I’ve been bad about returning the favor, but I’m putting it at the top of my to-do list today.
Topics: Annoyances |
December 16th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
[...] As does this person. [...]
December 16th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
oh man, on Friday, I got that same comment on two of my older posts!
I too found myself looking up that same user b/c usually spammers include some kind of web address for phishing, etc. - you can usually tell it’s “not quite right.” After a quick query, I found the same name and same comment on tons of random blog posts across the blogosphere. sigh. I got all excited for nuthin’. 
Speaking of spam, earlier in the week I had to shut down all comments (except from registered users) for several days because someone spammed a post with a comment using a spoofed address- I got about 300 spams from the same IP on the same post within 10 minutes before I caught it. It was almost like a denial of service attack but with comments. Luckily, I happened to be checking my email when it happened so I was able to shut things down right away. I’m not sure what would have happened if I hadn’t caught it, maybe it would have used up my allotted bandwidth from my hosting company? It was very annoying though.
thumbs WAY down on spammers! ;P
December 16th, 2007 at 7:50 pm
I have my settings to where all comments have to be approved first which seems to keep the craziness down.
Either that, or the traffic to my blog isn’t really enough to warrant spammers targeting me.
Spammers need to get a life - or someone needs to figure out how to turn the tables on them.
I’m not computer-savvy enough to extract that kind of revenge.