New Comment policy

Due to the recent rise of non-comments that are essentially comment spam I am now enforcing some level of comment moderation.  If you are a first time commenter now then your comment will need approval and I will be much stricter on the spam comments.

If your comment is not interesting or constructive it may well disappear.  I do want to encourage conversation on this blog, and as the comment count edges towards 5000 I feel that it has been accomplished, but recently I think comment spam has become a problem.

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Comment Policy

Please do not put your URL in the comment text and please use your personal name or initials and not your business name, as the latter comes off like spam and will likely be deleted.

12 Comments

  1. Posted March 2, 2009 at 1:10 am | Permalink

    Having to police comments means, according to one of my twitter followers, that you’re doing something right and popular. ;)

  2. Posted March 3, 2009 at 1:48 pm | Permalink

    I reckon there is some irony in these comments somewhere.

    Somehow I have a hankering for hip-hop, web-design, cell-phone accessories, and real-estate.

    ;)

  3. Posted March 4, 2009 at 6:00 pm | Permalink

    I use akismet for my wordpress blog, but I kept getting spam until I installed Wordpress Hashcash at http://wordpress-plugins.feifei.us/hashcash/ Try this one and let me know if it works out for you. Hope it helps.

  4. Posted March 5, 2009 at 7:51 pm | Permalink

    I rest my case…..

  5. Posted March 5, 2009 at 11:51 pm | Permalink

    Out of curiousity, what would you consider a legitimate comment? I just noticed you deleted the majority of the comments here and most seemed pretty legitimate?

    • Posted March 6, 2009 at 4:06 pm | Permalink

      Ya please clarify what is your criteria for choosing spam comments as my comments were deleted even when it wasnt a spam comment

      Thanks

    • Posted March 14, 2009 at 9:05 pm | Permalink

      WTF James? My comments were pretty constructive. I’m not sure why you chose to delete them?

  6. Posted March 6, 2009 at 3:18 am | Permalink

    That’s great to hear that you are tightening up the reigns on the commenting, and getting rid of commentators are spamming, and leaving worthless comments. I know in the past, when I ran my own personal blog, I too had to do this, but the one thing I did differently though, is that I openly expressed to my readers, what exact type of comments I would approve and what type of comments I would not. I had a link near the comment box saying “comment policy”, and you’d be surprised how much that cut down on some of the spammers who would just leave comments like “nice post” or “thank you” etc.

    I hope this helps!

    Till then,

    Jean

  7. Posted March 11, 2009 at 10:22 am | Permalink

    Comment spam is definitely something I do not enjoy taking care of! If you’re blog was dofollow, I’m sure you would’ve taken this step ages ago!

    Anyways, would you mind telling us what qualifies as a legitimate comment?

  8. Posted March 17, 2009 at 6:54 am | Permalink

    I got your understanding that comment spam can be pretty big problem for your but this is complete exposure you site in the public eyes.

  9. Posted March 20, 2009 at 11:30 pm | Permalink

    I’m assuming you are doing some kind of DoFollow because you have Top Commentator plugin. That is the price people pay for DoFollow policies, but at the same time, DoFollow really encourage more people to participate in posting comments. Can’t expect everyone to have valuable things to say. If you are talking about spam like “Great post!!!”, then I understand how you feel.

  10. Posted April 15, 2009 at 10:18 pm | Permalink

    I totally feel you, mate! One of my blogs has been flooded with BS ever since I turned dofollow on and added the “Top Commenters” plugin.

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  1. By Top work on March 25, 2009 at 7:14 am

    Top work…

    Excellent, just gotta recomend this….

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    My name is James Hoffmann, and I am a founder of Square Mile Coffee Roasters and was the World Barista Champion in 2007. I continue to write, give talks and consult on many aspects of coffee.

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