Slutty Spam: STOP

When I made the decision to update this blog regularly with content that might not always be about beauty, I have to admit I was a little nervous.  Sure my life is interesting, and I have a lot to say about a lot of random things…But, in the back of my mind I couldn’t help but wonder if I might run out of things to write about at some point.

40 thousand unique visitors come to this site every month (Not too shabby considering I maintain this site by myself) – Hundreds of you visit every single day – So, there is definitely a lot of pressure to be interesting and witty and, basically keep you coming back for more.

Blogging is a little bit like dating:  You want to be yourself, and as open and honest as possible…But you also want to make sure you’re appealing to the person that you’re communicating with.  And since 40 thousand of you are having a love affair with my blog, the pressure to keep it real and still be endearing is HIGH.

The only negative about maintaining a popular blog, is that the amount of spam in the comment section also increases…And in this particular case I think it’s gotten out of hand.

When I first started getting comment spam of the Viagra variety, I shrugged it off.  Shit happens, and someone in Mexico or Canada with way too much time is trying to make a buck and let the world know that they’ve got some low price, street market Viagra for sale.  I get it.  These are hard times – No pun intended.

But lately, the spam situation is out of control.  Not only are people leaving full on Romance Novel style entries in the comment section – But, they’re leaving them in OTHER LANGUAGES.

As someone who has always wanted to go international, this is not exactly what I had in mind. It’s also thoroughly annoying.

I thought I had a spam filter on the site, but apparently it’s not really doing anything and I’m not sure what else I can do to stop it.

With so many visitors I am getting tired of moderating each and every comment that comes through because it becomes hard to differentiate between the real comments and the spam when I’ve been clicking for 20 minutes on comments and marking 75% as spam.  After a while it becomes inevitable that I end up deleting a legitimate comment.  This is bad, because I really want my readers to be involved and feel like they’re part of the conversation.

If any of you have any ideas on how I can combat this, please leave your suggestions in the comment section…

Thanks!

Tags: aggrevation, Blogging, spam, Traffic