I get those spam comments, too. More so for Octane than the Blah, Blah! Technology blog, which seems be doing well in recent times, in terms of spam.

Akismet usually does a very good job, but the odd genuine comment can slip through. Fortunately, the clues are in the comment name and email, which I scan read for false positives (i.e.: genuine comments).

The problem with social media isn’t actually social media, but the people using it — we often choose different usernames and such, which makes it really hard to know friend from foe.

So someone you may know on Twitter could have posted a comment, but since it’s under their real name (which you might not know), you delete it, thinking it’s spam.

Ah well, life’s never easy, is it…

nice post, as you know my articles attract quite a lot of attention – to the stage where a flaw in wp lead to it being hacked … the articles are now @ http://seoandy.com – anyway to my point because i’m not here to pimp my websites.

I get between 1,200 and 1,700 comments a month … 99.99% are spam there are about 10 or 11 of those from real people. this annoys me but lets be honest it means i’m being found … add to that all the scrapers dancing around stealing the first sentence of my posts and linking and i see a little issue building.

but i don’t want to stop these scrapers unlike most people i like the links and though about 50% are no follow its the other 50% i love and even the no follows bring visitors from time to time …

exterminate the bots and botnets (like msft have today) and you will win.