Comments on: We are not here to promote your Web site

By: FrogDogz

FrogDogz — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:40:49 +0000

I had to go to moderated comments last month, because I experienced a ‘flooding’ attack — almost 500 comments, in the space of a day. Luckily for me, wordpress has a fail safe built in, and it automatically shut off my comments as soon as it happened.

I’m baffled by the trackback/ping spam. The comments, I can understand — they use your site to embed their stupid links (lucky me, mine are almost all porn, likely since I use the words “beetch” and “breeeding” so often (misspelled intentionally here).

But what is the point of the trackback/ping spam? What do people get out of posting little nonsensical snippets of our blog posts onto other, completely non related blogs? Beats me, but we’re getting approximately 200 of them a day right now, on top of the comment spam.

I guess that’s one way of knowing you’re popular…

By: Gina Spadafori

Gina Spadafori — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 01:34:03 +0000

Our spam filters do indeed catch most of the botspam —- two-three thousand every day. These are pay-to-comment people I’m talking about.

By: Dogs

Dogs — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:50:33 +0000

The majority of comment spammers are bots, and the best way to “relieve” yourself of that prob is by enabling a bhot varification before comment is posted. I think there is a word press plug in for that.

By: The OTHER Pat

The OTHER Pat — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:27:06 +0000

No! No! No!

You RESEMBLE that remark!

Sheesh! {vbg}

By: Gina Spadafori

Gina Spadafori — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:28:24 +0000

Mockery directed at public figures and journalists are always welcome!

Comment by Selma — January 18, 2009

Journalists? I represent that remark! :)

By: Selma

Selma — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:03:44 +0000

With my blog, if you want to put in a link, you have to do a bit of work, so it cuts down on bots.

Every now and then I disable html to keep readers safe from possibly malicious links.

I accept no trackbacks.

I don’t moderate comments. I just (rarely) delete any that are inane (spam), libelous or threaten an identifiable person with violence. If I get tired of flying monkeys, I just shut comments down at some point.

Mockery directed at public figures and journalists are always welcome!

By: Marie

Marie — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:57:24 +0000

I call it comment spam. And yes it is very annoying. I went to moderated comments awhile ago because I had a bit of an online stalker beng rude to me but it also helps keep away the spam.

I don’t know how anyone makes money blogging anyhow. At least for the majority of bloggers these days. It seems most of us are just sharing stuff we like. In my case it is a place to talk dog without annoying my poor over dogged family members. (they didn’t chose my field after all)

I like surfing real comments for links to websites and to find other blogs I might enjoy. So moderated is better than blocking them all or not including links to the comment poster directly. I’ll take what I can get. :-)

By: Doug

Doug — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:12:48 +0000

oh here’s a to my blog.
http://hawkingharrisblog.blogs.....d-for.html

Doug

By: Doug

Doug — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:11:50 +0000

I laughed when you admitted to stealing your image from terrierman - because just the other day I used your PETA comments on my site. I did give you credit and a link though. I hope it is okay. I’m a fairly new reader to this site (and the whole blogging thing) and am enjoying it immensely.

Thanks for the words,
Doug

By: stellaluna

stellaluna — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:19:46 +0000

Oh, no, Susan — I meant I couldn’t remember what the specific entry was on here, that’s where I was going to add the link to the photos I found.

They are a few really good old Peke photos on Flickr, from the Library of Congress. They are from between 1910-1915. If you want to see them, go to Flickr and search for “Tanis Guinness” — that should bring up a couple of them, and the others are nearby in that same group of photos.