Exponential Growth of Spam Comment Numbers
As my site has drawn more readership lately, it has also drawn a great deal more SPAM comments. These comments are mostly crap, some are funny, but it is annoying too (since I have to at least look at the SPAM list to see if AKISMET has set some genuine comment as a SPAM). The [...]
Dueling Plug Ins
Interesting problem has arisen with two of the plug ins I run on my Canadian Personal Finance site. I added the commentluvplug in a while ago, where commenters are invited to include a link to one of their posts on their site. I like this plug in as it is kind of cute, and the [...]
Comments Update
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Comment relish turned out to be a bit of a non-helpful plug in, as it continued to send thank you e-mails to folks it had already thanked, and I actually got a couple of complaints about it, so I have removed it from the Finance Site. I have added Comment Luv to the systems to [...]
Spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam and spam
Originally posted on my finance blog after a particularly vulgar weekend that I spent cleaning up hundreds of SPAM comments on my blogspot account. Spam, Spam, Spam….. I don’t like SPAM ! No that is not my breakfast, it is what I am now continually finding as “comments” on this page. I have turned off [...]
Answer your comments
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Comments are a funny thing, at first when I started writing, I read them and never thought much more about it, but over time, I have taken to answering them most of the time, just because I think folks like to see that you are validating or at least reading their opinions. Sometimes I get [...]
Different Browsers and Different Views
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It’s interesting to see that looking at the same web site with different browsers sometimes gives you different results. My default browser is typically Firefox but I usually check things with Internet Explorer just to make sure I have not done anything wacky which causes folks on IE to not want to look at my [...]
What do you think of my Financial Site?
Seems like there are a few folks reading this (I was using this mostly as a note taking exercise, so I remember all the silly things I do along the way), so here is a request or challenge for you. Have a look at Canadian Financial Rants and tell me what you think of it. [...]
Bloody Spamming Commenters
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Whatever you do when you set up your blog or web site you must be diligent pulling the weeds in your site, which is SPAM. Yes, people leave these asinine comments which usually have NOTHING to do with your post, but it includes a link to their Adsense site, which consists of two links and [...]

