I’ve written before about spam, especially about how I consider it to be a crime on a par with child abuse. But what what do you consider spam? Emails hawking cheap pharmaceuticals and penny stocks are obviously spam. What about a company that leaves a comment on your blog that is might be relevant to the discussion, but at the same time is obviously just hawking their product? Do you let it through with the links intact because your readers might find it informative? Or do you edit it to remove the links because you don’t want to Google to see you link to a possible spam site? Or do you just delete it? Thoughts would be appreciated.
Tags: comment_spam, spam
A comment left on my blog that might be relevant to the blog post and I know is just to sell their product if it looks like it won’t offend or break the law I’d generally leave it on.I also leave on bloggers comments who add a link in the comment to their blog to try and increase traffic to their blog. Spammers who e-mail me I normally scan through and delete immediately unless they have been creative then I’d share the creativity of the spammer on my blog.