Comments on: Commenting disabled motivates me to comment http://www.simplemotives.com/2009/12/21/commenting-disabled-motivates-me-to-comment/ Sun, 09 May 2010 15:59:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Timothy http://www.simplemotives.com/2009/12/21/commenting-disabled-motivates-me-to-comment/comment-page-1/#comment-77 Timothy Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:07:50 +0000 http://www.simplemotives.com/?p=251#comment-77 Thanks Joseph for the reply. I know that monitoring comment spam on older posts gets to be a pain. You are so removed from the context and content of the post that you must reread them sometimes to determine if the comment is even remotely in scope. I'll be honest, I didn't notice the date on your post until after I had hacked out a response. Originally, I was under the impression that @CaseySoftware was linking to your response to the Page Rank algorithm being made public as well, from a slightly different perspective. Which I eventually realized was not the case. Either way, I wanted to contribute the Seomoz Search Engine Ranking Factors (http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors#ranking-factors) link to your post and see if that swayed your opinion on the matter at all. Thanks again. Thanks Joseph for the reply.

I know that monitoring comment spam on older posts gets to be a pain. You are so removed from the context and content of the post that you must reread them sometimes to determine if the comment is even remotely in scope.

I’ll be honest, I didn’t notice the date on your post until after I had hacked out a response.

Originally, I was under the impression that @CaseySoftware was linking to your response to the Page Rank algorithm being made public as well, from a slightly different perspective. Which I eventually realized was not the case.

Either way, I wanted to contribute the Seomoz Search Engine Ranking Factors (http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors#ranking-factors) link to your post and see if that swayed your opinion on the matter at all.

Thanks again.

]]> By: Joseph LeBlanc http://www.simplemotives.com/2009/12/21/commenting-disabled-motivates-me-to-comment/comment-page-1/#comment-74 Joseph LeBlanc Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:33:00 +0000 http://www.simplemotives.com/?p=251#comment-74 As Keith mentioned in his tweet, yes, I do have commenting set to auto-close after three weeks of the posting date to prevent spam on old posts. I was finding that 95% of the comments after a couple of weeks were spam. The remaining 5% were either of questionable legitimacy, or weren't really adding much at the end of the conversation. I was a little surprised that my post didn't get any comments after three weeks, as I realize my opinion was a bit contentious. In the meantime, I've temporarily reopened comments on all articles regardless of date. If you want to continue a conversation about SEO over there, I'd be happy to respond. As Keith mentioned in his tweet, yes, I do have commenting set to auto-close after three weeks of the posting date to prevent spam on old posts. I was finding that 95% of the comments after a couple of weeks were spam. The remaining 5% were either of questionable legitimacy, or weren’t really adding much at the end of the conversation.

I was a little surprised that my post didn’t get any comments after three weeks, as I realize my opinion was a bit contentious.

In the meantime, I’ve temporarily reopened comments on all articles regardless of date. If you want to continue a conversation about SEO over there, I’d be happy to respond.

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