Comments on: Comment Spam – Your Opinion is Needed

By: KingJacob

KingJacob — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 20:03:09 +0000

I would have told him if he has a legitamate chance of winning why’s he begging for votes? and if he got hostile Id just ban him.

By: shaun

shaun — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 14:51:55 +0000

that is a perfect example of spam lol, promoting your site through this site without permission is considered spam.

By: Miguel

Miguel — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 04:08:11 +0000

Hi Cord,

This is my first time reading your blog as well and I like Ryan was a little taken back by the way it was handled. but in saying that you definitly have the right to do as you choose. and it was definitly a spamy post I personally would have just deleted it and not given it another thought. and at most messaged the guy and explained to him/her what he/she was doing wrong and let me know that it is not the way to get his blog out there or the way to get a message across, if he was a newbie I would have maybe given him a few tips for the future.

Other then that I like the site and have just bookmarked it when I came here though I expected to see more about marketing then I have seen

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 04:06:58 +0000

That was comment spam and I’m glad you took the action you did.

Begging for votes is just as bad as begging for community joining on MyBlogLog.

By: Community - Ponder Me This : Marketing Hipster

Community - Ponder Me This : Marketing Hipster — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:02:10 +0000

[...] and offer your thoughts. There are no wrong answers in Ponderableland, unless you ask me to vote for you for the Best Blogger [...]

By: Cord Silverstein

Cord Silverstein — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:42:21 +0000

Steve – You’re right I could of just deleted the comment. But as I said in my response to him, until that comment, I have never deleted any comment from this blog that was actually written by someone and not some spam bot.

I think that was what made me respond. I was angry at him that he made me do something that I had not done and did not think I would ever do.

By: Steve Woodruff

Steve Woodruff — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 23:44:36 +0000

Of course, another way to handle it would be just to delete the comment, without any explanation whatsoever. Hopefully, a person who intrudes rudely in this way will “get the message” if enough people simply delete his, um, contributions.

By: Cord Silverstein

Cord Silverstein — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:03:28 +0000

Meg – Thanks for your comments and I agree with you. Now that I have a couple of days behind me, I think that my opinion was right from the go, but I probably could of handled it better.

Ant – Thanks for your kind words and thoughts. I am very sorry I missed you yesterday.

Paul – Thank you for your thoughts. I could not agree more with you. Again, as I said before, I think my thoughts were right on, but I might of been a little nicer, but who knows.

I want to thank everyone for the great feedback and thoughts!

By: Cord Silverstein

Cord Silverstein — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:59:00 +0000

Alex,

The commentator did not come back to see my response. Just like you are getting now, I have setup my comments to automatically send the commentator a copy of my reply to their email. I would be willing to put money down that he would of not of come back.

By: Paul OFlaherty

Paul OFlaherty — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:33:42 +0000

Hi Cord, your actions were spot on. Actually my only concern is that you were not harsh enough.

The commenter in question is not unversed in internet / blogging commenting behavior.

The very fact that they were hunting for votes for the Blogger Choice Awards means that they’ve been around long enough to know what’s what.

The comment was spam, plain and simple and should be treated as such.