I’m not sure that’s a very good strategy for your SEO, depending on a blogging platform to allow for dofollow links. And I’m quite sure that’s not what Google had in mind either, when they tell us to get organic links the natural way, by creating content that people want to link to – not by webmasters running around on do follow blogs to comment in order to get link backs. Also, I have a feeling that Google is clever enough to distinguish between links in comments area and real links created by others.

You wrote:
“Simply have ALL comments go to moderation is infinitely better than obviously trashing the innocent.”

That might work best for you, but not for me. I don’t have time to moderate all comments. As I wrote several times now, Akismet has more than 99% success rate in filtering spam on my behalf – the final 1% I spot myself, before I empty the spam queue.

And finally – if people wants to do business with me, they are likely to contact me – and not post a comment for everybody to see

In addition to her duties as Provost, I understand that Dr. Voisin is gathering information regarding how Akismet is used.

She has attempted to get them to respond to reason, but, evidently they are not willing to do that.

You probably know this already, but WordPress provides new businesses with the majority of Do Follow opportunities.

Therefore, if one is studying Akismet behavior, one is forced to go where they are functional, and that happens to be on WordPress Do Follow blogs.

However, you will note that BOTH Linda Christas College and ToysPeriod are do follow, but do NOT use a blind spam filter like Akismet, nor are they WordPress.

This is unusual, since WordPress is a very attractive blog platform without the blogger having to have otherworldly tech abilities.

Think what you will about Dr. Voisin. However, again, you are taking facts and interpreting them without the benefit of understanding what is happening in the white hat world.

Why not get on the good guys’ side, Klaus?

The first principle of business is to NEVER trash a potential client.

When a person is successful, 1% of trashing can amount to hundreds or even thousands of visitors to a site having a bad experience having nothing to do with spamming.

As you may know also, every bad experience produces NINE bad stories about a business. Every nine good experiences produce ONE good story.

You do the math, Klaus, and determine if you really want to sacrifice the 1% of your business for the sake of personal convenience.

Simply have ALL comments go to moderation is infinitely better than obviously trashing the innocent.

At least that’s what our business profs think. You may disagree.

However, I can only appeal to your sense of right. If the person being banned unfairly was someone you cared about, would you still be as bland as you seem to be about this problem?

Regards,

Leone, Class of ’12
Linda Christas College
BA Business, Emphasis Environmental Sustainability

It’s typical that you will receive several comments all within an hour, throughout your blog, from that IP. For awhile there, I was getting them from “different people” all at the same IP and having writing styles that were almost exactly the same. For example, I’d get one from Joe, a minute later, one from Anna, a minute later, one from the doctor, two minutes later, George and so forth. Some of these had the exact same “copy and paste” text, even though they were supposedly written by separate people.

You should give notice on your blog that the IP will be banned if comments continue to flood in to unrelated topics. The “do follow” links are our gifts to people who decide to comment. To get attacked as you have just been attacked by the LC people is disrespectful.

BTW, I see your Alexa is now at 91296 – That’s awesome! Congrats!

To be honest, I don’t really care what kind of college they are and what kind of blogs/bloggers they deal with. I just don’t want them coming here and telling me that Akismet is ruining it for them and telling me (and other bloggers, for that matter) to disable Akismet and allow for tons of porn spam etc. to be posted.

Hi Michelle,

Since you seemed to support Tech Patio in their errors, I wanted to cc you on this message that I posted there only a short time ago. They got is so wrong, I thought I would at least give it a try.

Here’ my request of Tech Patio for a retraction:

In case Tech Patio wants to print a retraction (slim chance I know), here are the facts.

ToysPeriod uses lots of its profits to support a private system of education that the US Department of Education has in 2009 claimed to be a much better vehicle for teaching than face to face classroom formats, as those we use in our public schools in the US.

Many of us understand what they, ToysPeriod, are trying to do, and then there are some that will make ToysPeriod pay for any good deed.

ToysPeriod not only provides Linda Christas College with web service, but also with some scholarship money for students, including me.

So, naturally, when people misunderstand the situation, it’s like sticking a dagger into my heart.

Why would anyone do such a thing to begin with? Well, people are people, and as such, there are always some who will look for the worst possible interpretation of the facts in support of their own “superiority.”

In this case, the superiority turns out to be public foolishness.

ToysPeriod never spammed anyone in their lives. Akismet is under investigation and may be shut down or sued because of Civil Rights abuses, and new business owners who want to encourage business (and why wouldn’t they) are finding that at least 5% of potential business is trashed by Akismet’s anonymous banning processes in addition to 5% that the site might lose anyway.

Let’s see if you do the right thing here. I bet not.

Why not stop by ToysPeriod for a backlink. They are a Do Follow blog. I bet you will not find a better written blog anywhere. Why not turn acid in lemonade.

Leone Parette, LC class of ‘12
BA Business, Emphasis, Environmental Sustainability

The tone of your writing shows why I personally had such a problem with the types of comments I was receiving on one of my blogs from people claiming to be writing as Linda Christas students. Are students not allowed to comment independently from home, thus having a different IP? Do teachers lean over each person, carefully observing the student as he or she types comments on do comment blogs? If this is the case, are these people under 18 and thus breaking the terms and conditions of various COPA compliant blogs that restrict minors from participating?

I am curious whether all students at Linda Christas have removed Akismet or any other spam filtering software from their blogs as those of us in the “do follow” blogging community have been instructed to do by Linda Christas and if so, what their experiences have been in dealing with the volume of porn and nonsense that is submitted constantly.

I completely agree with Klaus’ response to you — and yes, I do have a business degree.

Dear Ricky,

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