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An Ode to Blog Comment Spam

November 13, 2012 by Adam Sherk

Ever notice how the most flattering blog comments are actually the spam comments?

This always makes me smile, so I thought I’d share a handful of them here. It would be a shame for so much unbridled positivity to never make its way into the world.

Willy Wonka blog comments

There are the simple, straightforward compliments:

simple blog comment 1

simple blog comment 3

simple blog comment 4

And it is hard to argue with this:

praise blog comment

A pat on the back is always nice too:

compliment blog comment

But I like the longer, dare-I-say philosophical comments best:

long blog comment 1

long blog comment 2

Bringing someone back from the precipice makes all this worthwhile.

Finally, you have to admire the “it’s them not me” approach of this one:

final blog comment

I have to say Akismet does a good job of catching spam comments like these. A few make it through each week but the vast majority are caught before they are published.

It has already snagged more than 100K on this blog:

Akismet

An achievement worthy of some actual praise.

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Comments

  1. Nick Stamoulis says

    November 30, 2012 at 2:19 pm

    Working in SEO for years, I have seen blog comments that run the gamut in terms of ridiculousness. I have to laugh at some of them that are so generic and gratuitous with comments such as “I love your articles, they are so good” or “I’ve been looking for a blog like yours for a while.” None of these comments address the content in the post or the content of the blog overall. Sure the praise seems nice for about 2 seconds and then we trash the comments before they make it to the blog.

  2. Adam Sherk says

    December 3, 2012 at 1:57 pm

    The “gamut in terms of ridiculousness” is well said Nick. I’d been meaning to write this post for a while, and finally got around to composing this Ode….

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