Comments on: Is John McCain Encouraging Comment Spam?

By: Karlonia

Karlonia — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:14:00 +0000

Two methods that can help to encourage (hopefully non-spammy) comments are allowing DoFollow links (removing default nofollow attributes so that "link juice" is passed to the sites) and installing the KeywordLuv plugin, which significantly helps commenters with SEO because it allows them to choose the anchor text for links. Overall, it is a good thing to encourage comments because the extra content provided by other people adds more keywords to your posts, which in turn brings in more traffic from the search engines without costing you any more time than it takes to write the original post.

By: http://www.jocuri10.org

http://www.jocuri10.org — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:54:47 +0000

nice site

By: Josh Catone

Josh Catone — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:56:56 +0000

@tgoyer: Someone else at the office must have zapped that one before I saw it. :)

Though my comment was directed at any of the commenters decrying “politics at SitePoint,” not just you. … Then again, I suppose any of them might have been replying to that other comment as well. ;)

By: tgoyer

tgoyer — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:46:39 +0000

Sorry.. that was me. :D

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:41:50 +0000

Hey Josh,

I wasn’t talking about your blog post. I was actually referring to the post above mine — apparently now deleted. It was a three-page paranoid, rambling screed blaming all the world’s evils on those “… nazi-loving, gun-toting, racist Conservatives… “. It had nothing to do with the topic at hand which is why I replied the way I did.

By: Josh Catone

Josh Catone — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:06:02 +0000

The point of this post was actually not political. The thrust here is that a major web publisher is encouraging comment spam — which is a very relevant issue to other publishers. The only reason politics enters it is because that major web publishers happens to be a US presidential candidate.

Feel free to skip any posts about where the web and politics intersect, though. (This actually isn’t one of those, as I just explained, but I do write about politics and the web occasionally.)

By: tgoyer

tgoyer — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:51:21 +0000

Let me guess, the US didn’t go to the moon, there were multiple JFK gunmen, and the Bush administration blew up the World Trade Center. I’m sure you have the smudged grainy pictures to prove it. Someone please get Mr and Mrs. Calabria their medication STAT!

Again, this is a web design forum. Why again are we discussing politics??

By: SSJ

SSJ — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:57:49 +0000

Why we are going to discuss the politics over here :)

By: AlexW

AlexW — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:31:41 +0000

tgoyer, point taken, but we do try to cover a range of stuff. Occasionally it might relate to politics and the web, but not often. Hopefully you can judge the content by the title, and simply wait for the next post that’s more useful to you (i.e. like the recent ‘blockquote’ post).

By: tgoyer

tgoyer — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:10:46 +0000

Why exactly are we discussing American politics on a Web Design site? I come here to read about the new w3c recommendations and the latest CSS hackery, not a tit-for-tat political discourse.

Can we please stay on topic?