Comments on: Fake Commenter Names

By: Mitch Mitchell

Mitch Mitchell — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:57:34 +0000

You’re right Don, all one needs to use is their first name. And truthfully, I don’t really care whether it’s their real name or not, just a name I can actually use instead of something like “car deals here” as a name; I’m not having that.

By: Don @ Las Vegas million dollar homes

Don @ Las Vegas million dollar homes — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 07:18:46 +0000

First of all, you don’t have to use your full name, just first name. That’s not going to give anything too personal away. Also, how are you going to know if the person is using their real name or not? They could be using someone elses name and you’d never know it.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:48:50 +0000

True, but it gives us our excuse to delete if we need to.

By: Sire

Sire — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:39:00 +0000

Not only are they missing the comment policy but on my blog they have even missing the instructions on the comment form and there is no excuse for that.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:59:14 +0000

That is odd, Sire. Over time I’ve allowed keywords as long as I get a real name first, but I often wonder if the people whose names I make as all letters notice at all. It does prove they’re not reading the commenting policy, that’s for sure.

By: Sire

Sire — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:49:17 +0000

Hey Mitch, what I find amazing is that you wrote this post last year and I’ve only just got the trackback to it, and they say snail mail is slow

As you know my blog uses keywordluv and yet people still use keywords instead of names when that plugin allows them to use both. Some even use multiple keywords! Depending on the comment I’ll either delink, delete or spam those comments.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:32:13 +0000

Actually, it did make sense. At this juncture, like you, I’d leave it alone because people know where to find you. That, plus since you’re on a free platform, you’d kind of miss out on the SEO benefits anyway.

By: Val

Val — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:42:53 +0000

Oh, I’m addicted to checking out all the pages and posts I can when I find someone’s blog that I think I’m gonna be able to get into – and I’ve gotta tell you I’m also into bloggers who are able to post good comments and replies to comments… so, here I am!

Duck Billed Platitudes! If only I’d realised when I got my blog, though, that I should’ve made the URL the same as the blog name not my username!! (I keep wondering if it’s too late to change it or if it’d throw the brains of everyone who’s already got it, out of kilter.

Did that even make sense??
.-= Val´s last blog ..Motherpearl =-.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:48:10 +0000

Glad to see you as a first time visitor, Val. I like being able to call someone a name, and if it’s a nickname, I don’t mind that. I do get a lot of those keyword names, and overall I don’t mind, but some of them are kind of silly. I’ll go in and edit the name if the post makes sense and leave it on the blog.

Truth be told, most people don’t need to check out the comment policy. But for those who have alternate agendas, as you mentioned, you’d think they’d care enough, if they plan on coming back at least, to see what it says.

Duck Billed Platitudes; that’s classic!

By: Val

Val — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:59:05 +0000

Hi, my name’s Val – as you’ll see! Interesting post (or is it a page? I surfed into it from a link you posted in another post here. Now I know how people feel when I do that! I’ve been hopping from one tab to another reading your linked posts!)

So far, touch wood (looks for some wood to touch – ah, under the formica-topped table, that’ll do) I’ve not had keywords in place of names, unless you count usernames? WordPress/blogspot usernames are often very anonymous especially when the people behind them don’t include a name. I try (but often forget) if I’m posting via my blog URL to include my first name, but when I forget, people call me ‘oldbird’ as many don’t like the ‘absurd’ bit!

I’ve also got a commenting policy, though my blog readership is smaller than yours (I’d think) as mine’s less… I dunno, less commercial? Anyway, I moderate all my comments and so I get to choose whose get in and whose don’t. And I have edited a few of them, mostly those which not only have a link back to their blog in their gravicon/usericon, but then put an extra link in their comment. Just like you, I don’t like comments that don’t relate to the post their purporting to be replying to. So if someone posts a link to a post in their blog or someone else’s that’s related to what I’ve written, then that’s fine. If not – then nope, I’m not having it there!

Anyway, nice to meet you. I’ve not read many of your posts yet (apart from the one/s that brought me over to this one) but have you in my feed reader now so will read more. I am also one for replying to comments. Oh – and interesting to discover the ‘commentluv’ thingy. Don’t know if I’ll use it myself or not, but it’s nice that it’s here.

Now to try and get back to your post that I was originally going to comment on!
.-= Val´s last blog ..Motherpearl =-.