*crosses fingers behind back and glares at Rook*
]]>LK, exactly how long would a troll last at your place? You want one to play with, and don’t deny it. They swing by, read the comments and leave. I would send Luke or Golden Boy over but you would be cruel and destroy them.
]]>But I DO LIKE the new page an look.
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]]>I have gotten a few bounced by complaining to Blogger and TypePad about spammers using their sites, but now I let the filters take over.
I don’t like to censor anything, but they haven’t offered anything that I think people would be interested in buying.
]]>Anything with more than two links is automatically kicked into moderation, but after the first post people aren’t generally moderated. The links never made it to comments, so it does them no good.
I’m going to “no follow” things after everything quiets down, and reconstruct my missing month in the archives when I have time.
I would hope that people understand that I certainly don’t recommend what I did for everyone. Blogger could be great if they would just spend some money on design and hardware. I don’t understand why they don’t have another level of service that you could pay for to guarantee reliability.
]]>I have no idea what these people think posting in comments will do for them.
If the comments contain hyperlinks, if those comments show up in the blog, and if you’ve not taken steps to prevent Google and other search spiders from crawling your site, then those hyperlinks in the spam comments help goose the spammer’s website rankings in search engines like Google. The Greymatter developers were looking at working with a (I think) Google sponsored meta tag that would, in effect, prevent the Google spider from counting links from blog comments.
I actually had one comment spammer whose spams scolded me about how blog comments were ruining search engine optimization, and how I should just link to his sites so he wouldn’t be forced to spam my comments. Go figure.
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