Comments on: Keywordluv Abuse and No Follow Free on Do Follow Blogs

By: Mathdelane

Mathdelane — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:00:52 +0000

Hi Chris,
Thank you for voicing out your opinion and I appreciate it. Actually, I’ve been approving Yahoo emails contrary to what I’ve said in this post. I find it cumbersome if I were to scan all emails for validity. I trust my readers as much as my commentators like you so I don’t mind whatever emails they use as long as the comments are genuine and thought-full.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:43:25 +0000

I think that this is a little bit harsh, If someone doesn’t know these rules and accidentally breaks them by putting a yahoo email or something they get their IP address banned for an honest mistake. I think that you should make there be different gradients you know, 1st time you email them, 2nd time you… I don’t know but banning them for a honest mistake is (in my opinion) going a bit to far.

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:59:51 +0000

I’ve never heard of the keywordluv plugin, I got here from the commentluv site actually – I just signed up for that. I use spam karma 2 to spare me from the daily task of moderating dozens of spam comments.
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By: Mathdelane

Mathdelane — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:10:27 +0000

Hi Joey,

In that case, I’d always assume that people will use their common sense.

By: Joey

Joey — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:55:48 +0000

So, when you have for an “example” a good post and people just don’t what to add anymore and just want to thanks to you for the post what should they type in the comment form?
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By: Ira

Ira — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:10:17 +0000

That's always the way it is. A few people abuse something and ruin it for everyone. You would think folks would grow up...maybe one day. Good Post! Note: Keywords are removed as per Comment Policy.

By: Mathdelane

Mathdelane — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:57:48 +0000

Hi Alfred,
I would recommend that you should set a number of comments before you lift the nofollow on your comments depending on what you are comfortable at. I have set mine at five to discourage drop by commentators especially those that are being paid to do so particularly links from businesses.

Thanks for leaving your first comment.

By: Alfred

Alfred — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:36:07 +0000

hey,
u had left a comment on my site, came here following the commentluv link in ur comment.

Thanks for this post btw, i was using the normal dofollow plugin. Switched over to this plugin. Working well. Wondering if I should set the number of comments needed to around 2-3.
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By: Mathdelane

Mathdelane — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:10:44 +0000

This really wasn’t planned, Sire. But I have no choice.

By: Sire

Sire — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:03:27 +0000

It’s a shame it had to come to this but I fully understand you adopting a comment policy. I’ve had one for a very long time, I’ve even have a couple of lines on the comment form, and I still get the abuse. I either spam, delete or delink the comment depending on the abuse level.
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By: Mathdelane

Mathdelane — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:16:11 +0000

Wow, it’s nice to have Andy Bailey comment on my blog! Thank you for the comment and the advice. I really appreciate it. Having used Keywordluv and making this blog do follow both gave me priceless lessons about blogging and setting up boundaries. We learn from our mistakes and it make us realize that we’re actually doing something that we thought is helping others but the truth is, it’s hurting ourselves.

Commentluv on the other hand is on a different level and it’s something that I’d be keeping for as long as I blog.

Comment policy comes in handy after all. Now that I have set some guidelines, I believe that it’ll help me get into the right direction.

By: Andy Bailey

Andy Bailey — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:48:18 +0000

I very quickly learned that having dofollow would attract the kind of people that comment only to get something for themselves without making any contribution to the discussion so I removed it too.

keywordluv is plugin that I never even considered adding, the type of folk that keyword stuff their names are out for their own benefit and not the kind that add to anyones discussion unless they can take something for their own site, many times it’s not even a blog they’re trying to benefit!

having a comment policy is a good idea, good for you. The problem with them is that the people that are comitting the offense are the ones that don’t read it!

good luck with your site, don’t let the idiots get you down!
Andy Bailey´s last blog ..5 Ways to get more (comment)Luv

By: Mathdelane

Mathdelane — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:45:34 +0000

Hi Brian,
It’s so nice to have you here! I’ve been so lenient about this for sometime so it was abused but now I’m not tolerating anyone who would break my rules.

Welcome to my blog and thank you for your comment.

By: bbrian017

bbrian017 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:40:04 +0000

I agree and have never allowed anyone to comment without using their real name. I see many people trying to create a comment and the name they use is SEO Experts. I simply delete the comment even if it is real and true. I don’t have time for this crap and to be honest nor do my readers.

Great decision I’m also following you with this.

By: Mathdelane

Mathdelane — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:49:36 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion thou but I got it all under control. Once I caught an offender, he’ll surely get what he deserves.

By: Taufiq Hasan

Taufiq Hasan — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:16:38 +0000

Hmm, maybe you need a custom comment blocker, then you can easily block the spams.. .
Taufiq Hasan´s last blog ..Awesome Feature on Google AJAX Translation

By: Mathdelane

Mathdelane — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:12:27 +0000

Hi Taufiq,
I don’t use Akismet because if I was, I could have quit having this blog dofollow in just a week. However, I don’t think Akismet could detect it as spam either because most of the time, these comments contain valid emails and URLs left by those people being paid to do this horrible job for someone else.

By: Taufiq Hasan

Taufiq Hasan — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:03:00 +0000

Hi, that was annoying, whether Askismet couldn’t recognize it as spams?
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