That could be true, but most of these don’t even have links or valid email addresses attached to them. I’m thinking that they are trying to fool the site admin to white listing the email/ip address to spam it later or something like that.

I would think the “Great post!” crap is to try to fool the average blog owner into thinking it’s a legit comment – only after looking at the name/email/url would they notice it’s spam.

Yeah, I understand that – I use Akismet, Bad Behavior and a Captcha plugin to weed these things out. What I don’t understand is why do these bots inject “Great post!” into comments instead some link payload or other advertising crap.

I have a dozen blogs out there and yes they get hammered with fake comments. None of them go through because I use the API pluggin to stop spam. Many spammers use bots to get back links to their site and that is why you get those quick posts.

I’ve got a fair few of these here and there, both on my forum and my blog… and I usually delete them too, for the same reasons you pointed out. They can get quite numerous at times, but (from what I’ve seen) they do seem to give up too.

Great post! I really enjoyed it!

… obligatory comment out of the way, I have to say that yes I get these a LOT. “Fortunately,” my blog isn’t insanely popular, so I can more easily tell when comments are fake. Generally, if it contains nothing the references the post (“Great post! UPS really does suck at delivering packages on time in one piece!”), then I don’t let it through. You might find it valuable to track other stats with users (e.g., how much time they take to view a page and post a comment). If it’s legitimate, the post probably won’t be done in 5 seconds like most of the spam. I did a blog post a while back about other ways of preventing spam, but I’m lazier than a bot, so I’m not going to bother finding the URL for you. If you’re really interested, I’m sure you can manage ;)

I think you broke it by mentioning the ads. All I see are fairly generic text links now. Google knows when we speak of it and it doesn’t seem to like it. :P

But I think I know which ads you are talking about.

FINALLY! The Love button and the Fart button both on the same page! Your ads are the greatest!

No! >:(

lol

Your website proved mighty useful to me. May I suggest trying some anti-depressants such as Valium?