Losing Comment Spam, Gaining Comments47 lbs LOSTso farNovember 7, 2007 by Israel Lagares | 22 comments
I have officially received over 1000 spam comments. Luckily I enabled Askimet early on and it has blocked a majority of them. I guess my blog is not only helping me lose fat, but spam too. Darned spammers boil my blood.
That’s pretty darned sweet if you ask me. I have also broken the 1000 comment mark. That’s a big number to me. While about half of it is my responses to comments, that still leaves me with 500 real human comments made. I like responding to most of the comments made. I figured that if you take the time out of your day to comment on my blog, I should take the time to respond. I made it a personal mission to visit as many blogs that can assist me in losing weight as I can and then commenting, thus becoming a part of the community there.
I started this blog to help hold myself accountable and to have the assistance of an entire online world at my disposal. So far so good. It’s been a couple of months and I have lost over 40 lbs, gained some awesome online friends, and learned a lot of things that I can apply to my weight loss journey.
Thanks to all of you that have visited my blog, helped me, and commented. You guys help fuel me!
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lol.
you are welcome.
thanks man. lol.
I hate those damn spammers too. I’ve received 55 total spam comments so far.
Congrats on reaching the 1000 comment mark.
Yeh, i just got another 100 spam comments since posting this.
Hey, we’re all in this together. Congratulations on your blog’s success!
Thanks.
wow, 1000 comments is a lot. congrats, that is a big milestone
I thought so as well, thanks for stopping by.
Congratulation. I believe every bloggers should take time and visit ‘neighbors’ and socialize. Akismet is a nifty plug in for wordpress if only I can have it in real life to catch bad foods and drinks that I occasionally have :D.
HAHA, Askimet for real life. Classic.
That’s a lot of spam! Before long you’ll catch up to ProBlogger (I saw that he hit the 1,000,000 mark lol).
HAHA, 1 Million spam, WOW. By the way blogging zoom as sent me some traffic. thanks.
Here is a link to the article you’ve been waiting for!
http://totaltransformation.wordpress.com/2007/11/08/are-you-ready-to-become-a-one-set-wonder/
HA!
Well it’s about time mister. good stuff, heading over right now. I actually was going to read it later, I received it via my RSS reader.
I always got a little spam but lately the amount’s been increasing significantly. So I get around to updating my wordpress finally yesterday and I come to realize I didn’t even have Askimet enabled for some reason. Ugh, but alls well now, haven’t heard a peep yet today.
i think this is the time of year where the spammers get real into their “work.”
I’ve been lurking, but very seldom comment. You really are doing great.
Thanks a lot man. Stick around, you are always welcome.
I love askiment! Thing that I wish I could add on would be the ability to send messages to the spam folder if they contain the word “buy”. I get so much spam that says “buy phen phen” or whatever. I don’t really want to switch to approving every comment so I just have to check in several times a day to delete the spam that gets through. Over all though, askiment rules.
Hmm, there is a plugin that you can install to help you with that.
Oops, spelled askimet wrong
Sorry.
No worries.