Duplicate Comments on Blogs, Do You Accept Them?

I recently tried out a new blog venture and I've gotten a lot of spam comments, as well as some automated ones.

Do you accept any spam ones just to add some life to a new blog, or do you wipe them out completely?

I personally block out every and all duplicate ones that I find. So for each non-spam comment that I read, I make sure to search it on Google if it has been used already somewhere else, identically.

 

If I had a new blog, I'd probably leave some of the spam comments, just to have something. I'd delete all their links though and maybe change the commentator's name to something real.

These days I just delete all spam comments. I get plenty of the comments that just copy a previous commentator, and sometimes those get through, but I manually 'spam' them.

 

ｈｍｍ　, i will agree with some of them !

 

I've noticed a lot of spammy comments on my extreme sports blog and it has only been up and running for a week! So far I've been deleting anything that I can tell is completely spam and anything that is coming from blog commenting software. I'm also being a bit like a grammar Nazi and deleting anything that just doesn't sound right... I'm hoping it will pay off in the future :-s

 

A comment must be real and not spammy. This is also to give credit to the writer and show that a person who is commenting actually read the blog or the article.The commenter can also add information or suggest anything about the topic so that other readers will find it useful and informative.

 

I liked what laborattorney said about how the comment should show that there was something related to the article in the comment.

I also agree with what you guys said about how, like, to get a blog started, it's acceptable to condone a few spam comments.

 

Even if my blog is new, I usually try to delete the spam comments. If you are using Akismet, they would probably be caught and not even show up in your pending comments. It might be good to see the numbers, but if real visitors read the comments, then it will not give a good impression of your website.

 

Some thing interesting here.
I agree that for new blog, spam comments with changing name to unique one, will be helpful, Here is noce logic to make blog SE friendly and popular.
Great Idea. Thanks for sharing nice tips for blog commenting.

 

Heck no! They are contributing nothing to the post and just posting crap to get a link.

 

If the comment is anyway related to post then approve it and if same comment is coming again and again then except the first one and report others as spam.

 

So ways, purely refers to spam.

 

If anyhow you find that they are generating discussions or contributing something for our blog then only should approve them, maybe even if they are duplicate. Out of a 300-1000 words of unique content, even 50-60 words of duplicate content is a blog's comment doesn't actually affect search engines. Mostly they are not so much valued just as forum signatures.

But if anyway they are not contributing anything to the whole scenario then just mark them spam.

 

I delete all spam comments, unless they specifically relate to my post.