Comments on: Penis Enlargements and the Problem with Comment Subscriptions

By: Knut Holt

Knut Holt — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:23:02 +0000

I think you should not worry too much about the comments, since the word in the comments actually will give you more traffic to your blog.

I will advice you to go in ocationally and delete that comments that you suppose do not contribute to your good traffic and let those others stay.

All spam is actually not bad spam. Some of it can give you more traffic. And some of it you can have some fun with.

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By: Chris McCafferty

Chris McCafferty — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 14:43:33 +0000

Moderate your posts.

By: Marco Raaphorst

Marco Raaphorst — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 09:12:13 +0000

in my opinion RSS feeds are best to keep you up-to-date. why use email if you can have a feed?

By: HART (1-800-HART)

HART (1-800-HART) — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 09:03:13 +0000

@Marco .. I can understand, and realize everybody has their own preferences. Sure I would prefer RSS feed than email, but I use Bloglines. I would have to subscribe, initially sort, and ultimately delete the feed as my feeds would be growing (not to mention be on the bloglines website, whereas my email is always up). Very time consuming. What I do for all my comment subscriptions, I create an email filter to go directly into my Spamnix folder (Eudora). It sorts by subject so I first delete the crap, and leave the “[ProBlogger Blog Tips] New Comment On:” and scan the comments. As, I just saw your post, it works for me and that’s my preference. In a few minutes, or hours, or tomorrow, I will transfer my Spamnix folder to Trash. I only delete my trash every few months, just in case.

But, I’m sure eventually there will be some super-duper comment plugin created sometime that has live comment preview, subscription to email, RSS feeds, and even spell check and goodies we probably haven’t thought of yet.

By: Marco Raaphorst

Marco Raaphorst — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 07:44:45 +0000

@HART: sure the standard feed comments works as well but some people don’t want to keep track of all comments. But putting a bit of scripting in the post you can create such a specific comment-feed per post in a simple way.

It’s easier than handling comments by email, must faster ;)

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By: HART (1-800-HART)

HART (1-800-HART) — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 21:42:01 +0000

Marco .. that’s a very tedious task to do and your feed count that people are watching would grow exponentially. You should try using what I use – in addition to the Subscribe to comments …
http://www.problogger.net/comments/feed/
I see all the comments on all posts that I don’t even comment on. I just might not look at it in real time or regularly, but I always scan the entire feed. It’s interesting to see posts the REALLY early posts every once in a while.

By: Marco Raaphorst

Marco Raaphorst — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 21:28:58 +0000

you can also offer a comment-feed per post. just add /feed/ to the uri, that’s all.

something like:
You can keep track of new comments to this post with the comments feed.

For example:
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2006/03/05/penis-enlargements-and-the-problem-with-comment-subscriptions/feed/

By: The Information Bank

The Information Bank — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 20:41:58 +0000

I totally agree with the akismet. Man, that really curbed the comment spam on my blog.

By: A.H

A.H — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 20:07:15 +0000

i just blacklist everything that has “penis” in it since i had the exact same problem with these…(no pun)

A.H

By: Aaron Brazell

Aaron Brazell — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 13:51:36 +0000

+1 on Michele’s comment. The recommended spam solution is Akismet combined with Bad Behavior. Absolutely a Godsend.

By: Michele

Michele — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 12:26:47 +0000

I don’t know which anti-spam plugins you are currently using, but IO Error’s bad behavior ensures that none of that kind of junk ever gets through on any of my blogs.

By: HART (1-800-HART)

HART (1-800-HART) — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 09:35:33 +0000

I only scan the RSS feeds and usually come by and read everything – but, only respond to a few of the entries. When I do respond, I am one who ticks the box so I can read follow the conversation outside your pages. So, I get incoming emails and even though I look at all the new comments (real or spam) .. my eye tends to just ignore the spam. In fact, I can’t remember EVER seeing any penis enlargement spam on the posts that I am subscribed to.. although I have seen many cialix and phetermine spam comments plus a few with about 100 links in them.

Also – it’s not like it’s a total shock or anything … Spam happens. As a blogger, it’s not like it’s something new or anything like that … most of the bloggers here are also probably used to it too.

As a Sidenote .. that akismet actually works well I’ve noticed .. I was surprised. I still seem to be gettting spam on “pages” though and haven’t figured out a way to stop it, even though the template has been adjusted to remove that option, the “page” doesn’t have comments enabled, and stuff like that. I get more peeved at that type of spam.

By: assaf

assaf — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 06:42:09 +0000

I can’t recommend Akismet enough. It does a wonderful job of spam control. So far no false positives, and only one or two spam comments that sneaked in.

Someone added this post to co.mments four hour ago. I just saw it on the main page. So here’s another way to keep track of this conversation, sans the spam.

By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 05:46:17 +0000

Holy crap, Darren – I thought somebody hacked into your server with that title … :-)

I too love the email notifications – don’t get rid of it. With ProB 99.9% of the email are good, just the odd spam gets through.

The Akismet plugin has caught 100% of my spam so far (712 of them).

By: Rob Sanheim

Rob Sanheim — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 04:27:30 +0000

I’m amazed your contextual ads for this post didn’t go horribly wrong, given the title. :)

Also, another alternative is coComment, though its a bit nerdier then the nice, easy email option.

By: row1.info

row1.info — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 04:17:18 +0000

I always tick notify me of future comments but I never seem to get them (check junk folder), maybe its just as well…

By: A1Arcade

A1Arcade — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 03:50:31 +0000

Wow, I was a bit surprised when I saw the title of this post, Darren. Good use of it to grab attention. I hope you figure out the commenting problems.

By: DaEMoN

DaEMoN — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 03:29:14 +0000

Why?
Thanks to your blog, not only I did increase my AdSense revenue, but also gained 2 valuable inches!

Heh, on a more serious note: Darren, I am sorry to have let my faith in you vacillate. Reading the title of this post in Bloglines, I thought the “make money online” keywords weren’t doing too well lately and you had to find a way and stick “Penis enlargement” somewhere on ProBlogger.
:)