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Is Your Own Comment Moderation Hurting You?

December 8, 2011

Do you delete comments because the commenter didn’t have enough to say (in your opinion)? I read a forum, there was a post by someone who felt discouraged about their writing. They weren’t getting enough comments. In the comments from this post, someone said they delete comments based on their value. For instance, they delete [...]

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Splogging with the Comment Spammers

August 23, 2011

I’ve been writing for the Spam Comment blog. It’s kind of fun, as a writing exercise. You can say anything (PG14). Be sarcastic. Be silly. Be yourself even. Next time you delete your comment spam, stop! Read some of them and pick a few to reply to. Split it into one line before the comment [...]

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Send your Comment Spam to Ben

June 18, 2011

We Need Your Spam! On July 30th, Spam Comment will publish its 200th post. This is great news – but unfortunately it also means we’ve run out of spam comments to publish. Therefore, we really, really need you to send us your comment spam! Don’t just send us any old spam though – look for [...]

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Comment Scam

March 30, 2011

I’m glad we can edit comments left on the blog. I don’t remember being able to do that when I was using Blogger/ Blogspot. You could delete the comment or keep it. Today I had a comment on an older post. It was a good post, in my own opinion. The commenter used my name [...]

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