About 3 weeks ago Andrea added the Spam Karma 2 plugin to this blog. She had tested it in one of the other blogs we have. It has outperformed our expectations. About the same time she added it to Homeschool Journal. Spammers had found the site and on one abandoned blog I enabled the plugin before deleting the blog. Without spam protection, the blog had collected up almost 1500 spam comments in a few weeks. Spammers have obviously found the site.
Before I move on, I want to say that I recommend the Spam Karma 2 plugin for spam control.
This week I had the oddest comment show up. The comment began with the statement that the author represented a non-profit organization. However, the comment included numerous links, a phone number for the organization and what purported to be sample content from the NPO site. I didn’t bother to check and see if any of the content of the comment was legit. I deleted it.
Whether or not this particular comment met the definition of spam, it was spam in my book. If you oversee a legitimate NPO that serves some worthwhile cause, you will likely find that many blog owners won’t mind you leaving a comment. However, the comment ought to relate to the blog post in question. Adding portions of your site map, contact information and unrelated samples of your site content is presumptuous and certainly not representative of any NPO which I would be likely to support.
OT: I spent a couple nights this week working on putting together a Gentoo Linux box. It is the first 64 bit processor I’ve worked with in 7 years. I chose Gentoo because it includes native support for the chipset (CPU, Video & Network) in that system. Hopefully, I’ll have it up and running sometime next week.
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