When I took up writing this blog, I was prepared to get spam in the comments. I’ve deleted quite a few so far. But when I got one that said “Super post, Need to mark it on Digg”, I have to admit, I almost approved it by default. That seems like just “nice article” compliment.
But, being the person I am, and having experienced so many people trying to trick me, I looked at the site in the commentor’s URL. It was a site in a language I couldn’t read, but the format suggested that it was a sales site of some kind.
So the surprise? I Googled for the exact string (with quotes) “Super post, Need to mark it on Digg” and got over 16,000 results. This exact string appears in blog after blog. The name and URL changes in the blogs I examined, but it always leads to some sales site.
Well, it was a surprise to me.