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Monday, May 21 2007
With my last post about Du’a Khalil Aswad, I got a first time commentator and the comment was only a link, which in my views is equal to spam.
My dilemma is that the url was on topic. I wrote an email to this person, to give it a 2nd chance. “I have had a quick look at your website and it looks genuine to me but since you only put a link as comment, that nothing more then spam. Hopefully you can add some words and more of your thoughts then only posting a link … until then I will not approve your comment.”
The reply I got back shows that this person is a lobbyist and worse, not understanding the blogosphere. And being a lobbyist for a good cause – that is a crime.
“I have leaving a quick link on many many blogs and I have become to worn out to leave a comment on each one (oh the arrogance!! and this one-way corporate style is so old school and inefficient), particularly since I am chairing the debate at Amnesty International tonight and have many things to do. (Oh is that suppose to impress me and say Oh Ok then … let me be your slave and publish your links.) … You are welcome to delete the comment: the most important thing is to mention our petition” (You are so not getting it)
Lobbyist, if you are going to ‘use’ the blogosphere, at least understand the how it works. In short, it is all about: CONVERSATIONS
My blog rule: I am not going be talk to and being used. No matter what the cause is. It is up to the lobbyist to have the right knowledge to promote their cause.
May 22nd, 2007 at 19:19
I would think the same as you Lizze. If someone doesn’t have the decency to at least preface it with even a line… then… out it goes.
May 22nd, 2007 at 23:04
Incognito – even her arrogant and ignorant lines in her email would have gotten her link published. Because then the conversation could have continued.
Jay – stop mucking around with the comments and add some damn words with that link.
May 23rd, 2007 at 16:31
I have had some of these commentators lately, I don’t see the point of them, as you might visit the page, but will certainly not return.
May 23rd, 2007 at 16:41
I know what this person has done, Google’d “Du’a Khalil Aswad” and then plastered her link at each page and thinking “Job well done”. I doubt she’ll come back and continue the conversation.
May 24th, 2007 at 11:28
http://www.hot-blonde-babes-doing-it.com (are you going to approve this comment now?)
Eh jokes apart, I get a few spam comments now and then (even now, when my blog is on a hiatus!). The bad thing is, I can’t even email the commenter and fire them… It’s all automated
I doubt this person is doing shit in Amenisty whatever… look at this sentence… “I have leaving a quick link”
May 24th, 2007 at 18:54
heh slim … you are already pre-approved
I have it in my wordpress settings that first comment from anyone needs to approved by me before being published on the blog.
Wordpress has a great spam filter, Akismet, that catches 99,99% of all spam.
Well, my English is not always a 100% so I am prepared to give someone a benefit of a doubt when it comes to that.
May 25th, 2007 at 1:50
oh oh.. what to say /… I am hurt
May 25th, 2007 at 12:01
sorry Jay – it didn’t sounds so harsh in my head but re-reading it again, it is more black then white.