Maybe I need to tell the spammers I have two kitties with claws and teeths? I suppose I could try that..

Cheers,
Snoskred

There are some blogger sites who have deliberately made their comments section do follow, but in general the spammers don’t bother with blogger.

Jump over the edge, you won’t regret it.

Cheers,
Snoskred

I hardly ever get spam comments on my blogger blog, though I know the wordpress blog I had admin access to on a digi scrapping site gets heaps. Is is just that my blogger blog with a measly 30000 hits a month isn’t popular enough for much spam? or is it something else?

Lightening – that’s because you’re logged in to wordpress and you’re the author of the post. It shows up for me when I go there and I’m not logged in.

You should see – You are the author of this entry. Manage subscriptions. – can you see that?

Re requested topics, absolutely. I’ll cover it in writing posts, which I was planning on doing during this week. That may be more than one post, so I’ll do the pics first.

I’ll drop by soon!

Cheers,
Snoskred

I’m still waiting for something spammy to come in. LOL. Am I weird? I feel like I’m missing out or something. ROFLOL. I know, they tell me they WILL come. In reality, I just want one. So I know what you’re all talking about. After that they’ll annoy me I guess (or not since you have everything set up so nicely!)

Can we request topics for your wordpress posts? I’m having trouble working out the best way to put photo’s into my posts etc. So if you are taking requests….pretty please can I add that to the list?

P.S. On the topic of comments. When I write a comment on my site I don’t see the little “Notify me of follow up comments via email” box. Is that because it’s my site that it doesn’t show up or is it not turned on?

Kirsten – there’s going to be a fair few wordpress posts over the next few weeks. In part because I am moving a lot of people over to it and I seem to keep typing the same things over and over, so posting them here should save me some work, but it will also help other people new to wordpress – and even some old to wordpress who never knew some of the things I’ll mention. I hope that people not on WP don’t find it boring but the people on WP never complained when I was doing all the blogger posts, so fingers crossed.

Kelley – I’m mostly talking about comments with swear words or inappropriate comments. I do tend to edit out swear words because not everyone reading my blog likes to see them and I understand that – I swear myself at home and I don’t have a problem with language but I have to think about everyone reading and not just me. If they disagree that is fine. If they put in words that will get teenage kids looking for certain photographs here, then I have to edit that out. I made that mistake once, never again! I mentioned it in my disclosure page –

Yes, Snoskred once wrote a post which contained the words “Br1tney Sp3ars cr0tch sh0ts” and was soon inundated with traffic looking for the photos – which I had never posted. Snoskred needed to take a shower after that debacle.

CerebralMum – I’m not sure if that is naive, but it is one way to win spammers as friends. The you suck ones are deliberate spam tactics. They’ll do anything to get their spam to stay on your blog and they think that because some of us won’t delete a comment where people disagree that “you suck” means their comment will stay. But no, it doesn’t work.

Unfortunately there is a huge spam problem out there on the web. Part of the reason for that is the more links someone gets to their site, the higher they rank in certain search engines. But allowing those comments may actually cause damage to your own rank within search engines, so that is one reason it is important for us bloggers to remove anything that looks like spam from our blogs.

Another reason is because they suck. and don’t deserve to be linked to!

The other thing is, there are some people out there who are trolls and look for easy targets. I’ve had trolls on my blog before and I’ve dealt with it poorly more than once, so now I have a very strict policy with myself to always delete and never react.

Thanks for your comments – looking forward to a few more when others spot this post in their readers!

Cheers,
Snoskred

I’ve had two comments that went along the lines of “You suck…” but the site they linked back to was spammy so I marked them as such. I don’t have any limitations on what people will write. Unless it’s off-topic, hateful, racist/misogynistic etc stuff, it gets to stay.

I’ll be adding a mini comment policy blurb like the one you have above though. If only to let people know they can swear!