I receive an awful lot of complementary spam comments.
By “complementary”, I of course, do not mean “free of charge” – nobody expects to pay to receive spam blog comments. Rather, I mean comments which are attempting to pay me a complement, such as:
“What a fantastic insight, I am subscribing to your blog with my RSS reader (sic)”
Even though I know they are spam – because the name links to some sort of download site or other, and my spam filter has placed them into the spam comments folder within WordPress, these complementary comments still make my day.
Not really, I just notice them when I’m deleting spam comments, something I do routinely whenever I login to this blog at the click of one button.
I just wrote this post in a shameless and slightly cynical attempt to get more traffic to my blog by writing about something that many other bloggers will have noticed, in the hope that they may Google search something somewhat related to the topic of this post, and end up here.
It’s one of the things I do. You might have noticed.
Like writing about redsnow.
Based on what people are searching for on the internet and ending up on this page for, it seems arather a lot of us have issues withcomplimentary spam comments on blog!