Is the algo available for the public? Or just tuned for your own blog?

Shoe: Doesn’t anyone have a post on comment etiquette? The URL dropping makes me crazy. I’m tempted to do a “how to be a comment douchebag” post but don’t want to give anyone free press.

All the best with the upcoming Elite Retreat!

I agree about the URL comment moderation thing. In fact was having so much trouble with URL spammers on a forum that I insisted on a number of comments (eg 4 or 10) before the URL was autolinked. Could something similar be done in Wordpress (eg someone has to make x comments before their URLs are linked (before that it just displays them as plain text)?

yes, your right ! even in my blog i have problem with spammers, a lot of comments without sens, just crap !

lol i can see alot of people running up comment counts just to get on that top commentators list on the left side there!

i meant the right side… hehehe just playin with ya.

Is there a specific plug in you use for this, or is it something you have coded? I have a blog that is constantly getting spamed, most of the spam goes into moderation, but I would love for it to just get discarded.

Yea, I see a few comments that look like they are trying to get that first comment just so they can spam the rest. So far none have gotten through.

.. i just imagine 20 years from now on how spammers will look like…

I’ve seen your filter in use for a while now.

And to be honest, I like it. I’ve often posted, seen the comment vaporize, then ask - OK, what phrase did I use this time.. Its actually helpful to know when your choice of phraseology starts aligning with spam, and your blog is popular enough to warrant some efficiencies in that regard (the basic logic being, I can expect to see the same elsewhere).

The main reason I don’t mind seeing my comments disappear , and continue to comment, is because it reminds me that my comments are actively moderated, and they don’t get tossed with the bathwater.. I’m a fervent supporter of non censorship in a community context. It’s the only way to communicate effectively - AND the basic principle behind what made your blog popular in the first place (ie open book approach like your 10K experiments etc).

I don’t know I’d call it an algo, but just the same, it’s effective, though I do wonder - how much time do you (or delegate) spend administering your blog ?

PS: How about a post on administering your blog.. I mean, you admin from all over the place, find time to not only post, but approve comments etc, you must be using some choice software to do that..

Cheers,

JL

Agreed. No need for someone to include a link in their comment. The name with the embedded link is enough. Some people are just desperate.

I’m just not popular enough yet to have to moderate spam. The good with the bad… So, did a bunch of people submit comments that failed the test, just to mess with you? I’m thinking April Fools now…

this seems like a nice algorhitm. Why not release it to the public?

make a post about how to make money!

It takes awhile to get a clue about what makes a good comment and what makes a sucky one. After 2 years of blogging my system goes something like this: delete all comments in Akismet without double checking, scan through ones that made it past Akismet and approve ones without links in them (if they make sense) Delete a-hole comments. Approve contents with links if it is very relevant. If someone has a question a lot of times I will directly email them and answer.

Click on the (?) next to the top commentators box for the code.

moderating comments seems like a full time job. good thing for software to assist otherwise having comments wouldn’t be worth it

without spammers i’d have no comments - guess i need to work on it

That is what happens when individuals want your traffic and clicks! I am now starting to see the spam posts on my site. (I guess that’s a sign of success; I don’t know.)Shoe, if you decide to sell your code to fight spam, I’m sure there would be those interested in buying it!

Shoe - I think that you have been very fair. Most major blogs outside of you and John, don’t have commentors Blogrole, but you two have been kind to give small blogs a chance to get noticed…I just hope no one “kills the Golden Goose”

“GREAT INFORMATION!” Those are some of the vague posts we receive on ours. It’s quite annoying.

At least when a user shows that have read the article even a little bit, we are more apt to approve a comment that has a little substance.

how about sharing the plugin or algo with the rest of us?

not begging so much as to find some way of relieving the number of BS comments I get per day. 80+ and usually over 100. Only about 30 are worth the time to approve.

I’m just happy to know what the rules are! On another blog I got flagged as spam for commenting on something like five posts in a day and they never did unflag me… personally, I like it when new readers go through my old posts all at once, I think it means that they are excited about finding me and getting really involved and that’s the kind of readers I want, right?

I guess, it is best option to moderatore most of the comments even there are pretty much of them. Spamming blogs are pretty popular nowadays.

Maybe somehow making a registration system, which you need to login to site to comment can eliminate some of those spams.

I definitely think the algorithm is a good idea to help weed out spam but also letting a lot of “safe” posts get through to minimize the time you have to spend moderating comments.

What;s the catch..

creative post … i have a similar issue but ofcourse i don’t get as many comments as this blog. I do tend to edit some comments like remove links if the comment seems thoughtful.

My comments always seem to go in moderator, you don’t approve them all either. But thats cool :(. Sorry about not being able to send you a messaGE about your shirt. Your “contact me” thing was broken!!!!

Anyways good to know shoe, and I liked the recent video you put up.

PS.

Google is not all powerful, to say so is giving them more power, they keep slipping traffic wise, but do have a semi-relevant Algo. LOL.

With the amount of traffic this blog receives I am sure that you get your share of spam. I think it is pretty stupid to visit a blog just for the link back. It is like working out and doing it half A$$. You get nothing out of it. Some peoples kids!!!

I have a personal pet peeve for when people put a spammy phrase as their “name” in comments. I’d much rather see a comment on my blog with the commenters name listed clearly, so that if I want to address them, I can do it personally.

I experienced spamming in my blog, so I always moderate the incoming comment after that

I, too, have moderation enforced but only for comments containing links. It’s not a common way of commenting, but I’m experiencing lots of spam lately.

hope my comment didn’t get caught he he