Did “Love” leave me a message? Or is this an attack of human comment spam?
I set WordPress to email me every message. Yesterday, got a message from a visitor named “Love”, who evidently “loved” my pattern for a hand knit sock.
New comment on your post #733 “Double Decrease: Sl1, k2tog, psso.”
Author : Love (IP: 124.29.209.249 , 124.29.209.249)
E-mail : [email protected]
URI : http://www.find-dating-services.us/
Whois: http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl? queryinput= 124.29.209.249
Comment:
I <a href= “http://www.find-dating-services.us/”
rel=”nofollow”> love </a> the zag sock pattern. That is so coolYou can see all comments on this post here: http://www.[...]
To flag this comment as spam, visit:
I checked the whois for the IP; evidently “love” connects through the Asian Pacific Network. Natch!
You know, I’m thrilled “Love” loves my sock patern; it’s a very cute sock pattern, and I’ve knit some for myself. Nevertheless, I flagged the item as comment spam; now Akismet can protect other bloggers from this “Love” who “loves” my sock patterns and who probably loves stuff at your blog too!
I’d also like to send a news flash to Love’s employer: they didn’t get a “follow” link for even one milisecond. Linky Love suppressed “dofollows” because Love didn’t leave 3 messages with matching “name”, “domain” and “email”. Spam Karma is never going to let “Love” leave three messages quickly enough for me not to delete them all.
If you run a dating service and want to get a link on one of my blogs, try to hire my through Pay Per Post. Or ReviewMe. Or even TLA. Or. . .
Oh, but I don’t run ads for dating services. So, you are S.O.L.!
Bu-bu-bu-busted! Ha ha.
Do-Follow is cool and all (that’s how I got here) but it does have its abusers.
It’s an unfortunate aspect of being a do-follow blogger. It’s a great way to get the community involved, but spam, and pointless comments soon follow.
Wish there was a middle ground
I said in another comment that I’ve been a do follow blogger for almost a year. It’s only in the last month to six weeks that do follow comment spam has been a real problem. It’s increased substantially and I HATE it.
Love’s been hitting my sites too. I’m glad Love Loves what I talk about but I I don’t care for the links. They’ve been sent to Akismet too.
Akismet Rocks… Why you want to be do-follow?
Its ironic that you talk about this but you actually use no follow.