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!
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!
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