Jon Zolsky: Он может более подробно обсудить с Вами эти вопросы

I don't know if it has much to do with "prolific"  I think being on ActiveRain for any length of time can make your comments a target, unless you keep outside comments closed. I hate to do that.  A lot of abandoned AR blogs get a lot of spam on AR, or were. 

I have got so many interesting comments from "lay people" (not in the real estate industry) about the communities I write about.  You've been here since September 2009, you could start seeing spam. 

Jon is so interesting and he certainly is able to "discuss these issues with you in more details" on some interesting subjects.

A couple of months ago Bob Stewart told me we were not getting notification anymore because of a new secret weapon.  Bob Stewart wrote in a comment on one of his posts where we were discussing fake passport spam that had been left there:

"We think we've been able to curb this. We've added a hidden field to the comment section that gets filled out when a spam bot leaves a comment and wipes the comment out. Most of these are from before that........and you are right, no notification. We've been going through and targeting certain phrases (think "buy viagra") and deleting comments that have these phrases. Looks like "Fake Passport" needs to be added to that query.

Unfortunatlely Bob's old post  http://activerain.com/blogsview/633408/reblogging-whoops-there-it-is-#12484847

got hit with spam after he wrote the comment.  Last date of spam on Bob's old post and my old post was September 14, 2012.

So no I am not getting notice of spam comments.  I found 452 comment spams on the one post.  Earlier this week I found four on one post and maybe six on another post.  I want to say the most recent spam was a day old but other was dated earlier.   I was not looking for the spam.  I found it by accident.

You get points for reporting them on old posts but not for reporting 452.  Or I did not.  Maybe there is a 10 per day limit?  I should have spread it out?  Do you know how many clicks that is?

Bryan wrote "I turned off outside comments so I don't get them."  I turned off non member  comments  temporarily but will turn comments back on once I feel like I have the spam under control. The treasure for me in blogging are comments from real people. Although they are few and far between the value outweighs the chance of spam for me. I just wish we were getting notice of spam comments. The thing I hate about ActiveRain are the members crappy "Great post thanks for sharing comments.  Blah, blah, blah enough characters to get points" comments from people who have not read the posts.  And shouldn't bother to read hyperlocal content.  The  feigned interest and generic comments leave me cold. 

I got notice of your comments.  I just don't get notice of the spam comments.

Jon Thanks for letting me know what it says.

I found spam on an old post earlier today so I closed the post to all comments. I do not remember when the post was from but it was a market report. The funky spam on it was from May 2012, it was just gibberish.  There are recent market report posts that someone legit can comment on something newer. 

There is a certain group of posts I will probably always leave open but old market reports I am going to try to close comments after 90 days or something like that unless AR starts sending notification again on spam comments.  There are some AR members who do pretty much the same thing as the bot spammers.  Paul Iforgethislastname with Prudential  in San Diego comments the same  cut and paste thing on 10 posts usually about snow or cold weather, something about Sunny San Diego. 

I will have to go look at your post.

Thanks Gary. I open my marketing report posts up for comments after a few hours if I remember.  Only the last one will usually be closed to keep the cut and paste member comments off. 

Have you seen the member who cuts and pastes

"Excellent information I will forward it if that is ok? thank you!!!"

now?  Or has someone cut and paste in that comment for him on featured posts?

I openend non member comments for a short time last week and got at least one spam comment right away so non member comments had to be closed.