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14 Comments on Zombie comments... Waking the dead on ActiveRain.
these seem for us, to appear in bunches....and then they crawl back into the blogosphere...it's as though there is a secret passage or tunnel into the Rain that gets blocked and unblocked...chase those critters with the button...that's all we can do !
Maureen, Thank you for the post. I agree all that we can do is delete spam and report it.
This is not so much about an outsider leaving spam as about a member using a great conversation on ActiveRain (but an oooooooooooooooooooold conversation) to start a new conversation.... is there a difference?
There are some great conversations on old, old posts.
Did you know that there are people who are spending hours going back to their own old posts and make comments to get.....more points? I tried it a couple of weeks ago when I saw it happening to see what it would gain. Wow if I made sure I had three comments on a Localism post then I got 4 points. They will also discover if someone else made a comment on the blog who has email set to follow comments they will be notifiyed of the comment. You begin to look pretty stupid trying to scam the system for a measly 4 points when they are notified of a comment on two and three year old post.
I did NOT know that.
Do we get points on our comments on our post? I did not think we did! Points increase based on a conversation which is good...
One of these three posts IS a classic... the conversation IS so interesting.
There was a California broker who used a group I used to moderate during the night to leave comments...ten of them in rapid succession, just before the change of the day. They were even more cut and past than these...
I agree with you on the spam. I do not like the links on comments. I have not run into very much of it, but I will delete them.
Thanks Michael Would you consider the three examples I gave spam? Is he carrying on the conversation on the posts? I guess without links to the post how can you tell? Or is he spamming for traffic on his blog?
Maureen-yes we do get extra points for comments on our posts. My experiment showed the magic number is 3 comments. You get a total of 4 extra points. More comments on non-featured posts gets your more points. So if you have nothing better to do with your time go back and make comments to yourself. I on the other hand after trying this little points experiment realized in the time it took to look foolish scamming for points I could write an entire blog post and get 250 points and good google placement instead :-)
Sorry off topic from your original question. If the comments generate additional discussion then perhaps they are worthwhile. However linking has alwasy been considered bad form and in your example it appears to just be trying to get their blog name on as many posts as possible.
No, Thanks!!
I thought with his comments (I saw three but I bet there were ten similar comments) Why not just write a good blog post for people who are here? Why try to raise the dead? His comment on MF's post is so much more... than his if you click on his links in each of the three comments his blog is full of posts that are local content but not really hyper local content.. nothing there that the dead members are going to start up a conversation about, even if they were active members.
His whole blog seems to just be "I sell real estate in ________." Saying the city or region name over and over? Same impression I got reading his comments this morning. "Feel free to visit me back at my _________ real estate blog and leave me a comment to let me know you stopped by." His blog from the little bit I bothered to read is not providing hyper-local content for readers in his market so he is trying to get comments from dead people (dead to ActiveRain... inactive.)
Those pathetic comments were more prevalent in 2006 and 2007... The "come comment on my blog... I've commented here" kind of plea. Or perhaps they are still common here and on blogs I would avoid reading because there is NOT a conversation in the comments.
Brains!!!
The three comments are down.
Maureen - To me these types of comments are a) spam, b) point whoring, and c) a lame and pathetic attempt to get noticed on Google.
Not that I have any thoughts on THAT one way or the other. :)
Maureen - I totally don't understand how some people can spend time on something as unproductive as spamming other people's blogs or trying to scam the system.
Coleen and Pam thanks!