Recently, I have been reading about comment spamming. You know, where you go around various blogs and leave your comment just to get a link. And I don’t agree that it doesn’t work, because black hat SEO diary proved that comment spamming still works.
Just think about it for a minute: If you read your favourite websites on a regular basis and comment because you really like the discussion there and know the other guys (your community, remember), this just can’t be spam.
So how can Borg (the search engine we all love to hate) know where to draw a line or decide upon a threshold after which the comments from a certain webonaut will be considered as spam? IMHO, it would be just unfair to set up a threshold that will classify you or me or anybody else as a spammer.
What about people that are on the Web non-stop, who blog for a living and just surf inside the blogosphere, leaving their comments, interacting with others? They should gain relevance precisely because of that! Because they are valuable to the Web in their certain way: as the most active members of a specific community/communities. Borg should give them importance (and I believe that it does) because they are the movers and shakers.
I must admit that it is easy to see when a blog is an elite one or a completely spammy one. But what about all the shades of grey in between? Can anyone really trust an algorithm to make ethical judgements? Yeah, thought so. Especially if you know that the algo was created by individuals who call themselves do-no-evilers.
Also, who is Borg to judge anything at all? Like Einstein once said, everything is relative.
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2007/12/12 - Update: I have just noticed that a website I recently launched has a comment spam listed as a link to it in Yahoo. And what’s even more interesting, Yahoo didn’t pick up a directory a submitted my site to (Google did), but it considers the comment on a a blog as a valid link. No results of MSN yet. Hmm… I’m seriously thinking of making an all-out comment spam for a niche domain I bought recently and learn some more money for AdSense clicks.
Written while listening to: Carnal Diafragma - Space Symphony Around Us
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