This blog is a thinking person’s blog. Yeah, I know, that really limits the readership, but so be it. Akismet is very good at getting the obvious spam comments. It’s even started flagging comments where the robot just picks a tag out of the blog’s tags and autocomments a slightly more targeted statement generally related to the keyword, but not necessarily dialoging with the subject of the post. I guess the robots don’t check whether it’s a do-follow or not, they just post their crap everywhere that’s not blocked by a captcha in the hopes of hitting the do-follows. Then there are the actual human-submitted ones that are, in some cases, more inane than the robot-submitted ones.
Don’t post inane comments to this blog! I’ve had people contact me and ask why their comment didn’t get posted. It’s because it showed no sign of READING COMPREHENSION of the article. If you didn’t understand the article, ask for clarification on what you didn’t understand. Don’t say “I didn’t understand this article.” Say, “How did you get from A to B?” or I don’t understand why you said “bla bla bla.” Just blasting some tangentially related statement will no longer cut it. I’m looking for added value or dialog. If your comment does neither, it will be deleted, robot or not. I do not want to bore my readers with large amounts of useless and boring comments but PLEASE don’t make me do a CAPTCHA for comments.
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