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Spammers have been around since the beginning of the internet.

They infiltrate email, social media, and blog comments.

While we won’t ever get rid of them completely, there are some important details you should know about how spam comments affect your blog and ways you can minimize them.

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4 thoughts on “How to identify and minimise spam in your blog comments- by Stephanie Chandler…”

Thanks for sharing this interesting post, Chris. I tried commenting on the original, however the comment box is not labelled so as to be readable fully by my screen reading software, consequently I am commenting here. I agree with all the points mady by the blogger. I would add a couple of extra points though. For anyone who is frustrated with spam and installs a CAPTCHA to stop it, please do ensure that your CAPTCHA is accessible to screen reader/access software users. Purely visual CAPTCHAS can not be read by software such as JAWS, so adding a clear audio alternative, or a word puzzle (which can be read, for example “what is 2 plus 3), is the best solution. Also, under The Equalities Act (in the UK) and similar legislation in the States) websites need to be accessible to people who are disabled. Finally, one may get a seemingly genuine comment (well written) which is, in fact spam. I recently had one on piracy, in response to a post I had written on that subject. The comment was well constructed, however my gut feeling was that the person submitting it was attempting to sell their anti-piracy solution, consequently I did not approve it. A few days later I received another comment (seemingly from a different person) informing me how (the same anti-piracy outfit) had helped them. This confirmed my suspicion that I had been right not to approve the original comment. Consequently the latter comment was also spammed by me! Kevin

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