Jun 10
Comment Spam Comedy
Like most bloggers, I am inundated with comment spam, where link droppers post a random comment on your blog that includes a link to a web site, for the sole purpose of gaining traffic and link popularity to the site.
Wikipedia defines comment spam or blog spam as:
“Spam in blogs is a form of spamdexing. It is done by automatically posting random comments or promoting commercial services to blogs, wikis, guestbooks, or other publicly accessible online discussion boards.”
Being a WordPress user, I find that most spam is caught by WordPress’ built-in anti spam plugin Akismet, but sometimes a few gems make it past the filter and into my comment review list.
Most comment spam is completely non-sequitur to the post it is dropped on, making it highly amusing. Having chuckled on a daily basis at the comment spam received on this blog, I thought the comments deserved a blog of their very own. Therefore, this week I launched Comment Spam Comedy.
The goal of Comment Spam Comedy is to publish the most amusing non-sequitur blog comments posted across the web. I welcome submissions so if you have a worthy contender for publishing, please contact me via the site or via the Twitter account.
When you submit your comment spam, please include the commenter’s name, the URL he/she link dropped and the URL of the post it was dropped on.
Enjoy the randomness!
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June 16th, 2010 at 2:59 pm
I also experience this. It’s just hilarious what kind of stuff those spammers are trying to sell. And the way they do it are classic!
June 17th, 2010 at 3:34 am
Hi Kalena, love this post, i’m an avid user of wordpress as well and some of the comments are just to bad – the best one I have had was “Im a student and came accross your site in Ask, this has really helped my college project along” then there was a link to a site similiar to eBay. What really made me suspect this post apart from the link was they said they found the site through Ask – I mean, who uses Ask :-)