Wyndsong Writes

Dear Mr. Spammer Commenter,

I know you’re working hard to get you link on as many websites as possible for SEO stuff and page ranking, but you’re going about it all wrong.  There are so many things that if you just did them just a little differently, I’d be more likely to approve your comment. But as it is now, I just delete them all.  Which is a waste of your time and a waste of mine.  So here are a few simple things that you can do that will make me MORE likely (although its certainly no gaurantee) to approve your comment.  If you’re interested that is.

1. If you’re on a site that is in all English, post your comment in English.  I don’t care if your English isn’t the best, and I don’t give you points off for spelling or grammar (this is the internet after all not a English class).  But if I can’t read/understand your comment, it’s going in the delete folder.
2. I don’t mind links to your business website, but if you’re going to leave a link to your website, USE YOUR NAME not the website’s name in the comment.  It doesn’t have to be your whole name, hell it doesn’t even have to be your REAL name, but a name it does have to be… otherwise I would have called that box “Website Name” instead of “Name”.
3. If you leave a comment that is supposed to be in response to my post, make sure you READ THE POST before you leave a comment.  I almost never write a very long post, so it should be easy enough to do.  But if the comment does not make any sense what so ever to the post itself, then it gets deleted.  For example…. don’t leave a comment that says “this was a great post.  I’ve been looking for information on this and you’ve given me a lot to think about” on my COMMENT form!  Truly, there is nothing on the page but the form, so really, were you looking for information on that??  How difficult is it to read a real post of mine, and then just say “thanks, I enjoyed reading this.” and leave it at that?  There’s nothing more frustrating than to read a comment celebrating my informative writing style then to find out you commented on my “contact” page.  DELETE!!!
4. Don’t leave a comment saying you found my blog by searching for lyrics (electronics/viagra/whatever else funky ass website you’re pushing) and then say that other people can find the thing you were searching for on your business site.  If you were really searching for those things, it would have shown up in my google analytics, and it hasn’t!  You’ve been caught!  ~  DELETE!!!
5. If you’re going to leave multiple comments, don’t think that a name change is going to fool me.  If you post the exact same thing, from the exact same IP address, and the exact same website address…. I’m going to know it’s you!  DELETE!!!!

There are  a few other things that you could probably do to make yourselves seem a little more legitimate, but if I give you all that information, AND you listen to me, then spammers would be harder to detect.  The 5 things listed above are just really getting on my nerves and I’d either like you all to be a little smarter or change it up a bit!  Really, I don’t mind giving people the ability to link to their websites from mine.  But if you’re going to do that, give me the courtesy of actually reading my blog and commenting on it.  Sure it’ll take you a little longer than just copying and pasting your form comment, but it’ll be worth it!  Because I won’t delete your spam then!  I’ll let it slide because it’s relavent and on topic, rather than annoying.

I realize that you, Mr. Spammer, probably haven’t read this article.  You’ll probably continue to annoy me with your rediculous spam in Russian, hocking your crazy diet or gamer websites, leaving no name, over and over from the same IP… and I’ll keep delete your comments and those of your friends as well.  But at least it’s out there now.  You COULD figure it out and stop being annoying if you really wanted to.  I know you don’t really want to, but I’ve said my peace anyway.  So at least I feel a little better now.

I’m sure I’ll see you again soon on this site.

Sincerly,

Wyndsong

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