I have been reading about a new service out there (thanks to Liz Strauss). This time, it is called “buy blog comments”[dotcom]
That’s right, you no longer have to bother with the tedious task of actually leaving your own comments, you can now pay “someone” to do it for you. As they say on the site “Blog comments are the perfect way to get valid backlinks, on this website you can purchase them with ease..”
Shocked yet? It seems that in this fast moving world we live in, we no longer have time to even leave our own comments.
I’ll be keeping a look out for the spammy crap, I suggest you do too.
Any thoughts?
10 Comments
Eww! I feel dirty just looking at his site. That is truly reprehensible, yet probably inevitable. We’re in a world where you can pay someone to sit in line for you. There’s going to be someone lazy enough to employ this guy…..question is, how many lazy people will?
It may be “legal”…..but ethically, morally? Revolting.
Great idea! Where do I send the bill?
Seriously … if anyone’s life is long enough to want to do this kind of thing for a living, or to employ them, it’s a worry!
Can you imagine leaving comments for a living..you wouldn’t even have time to read the post..copy/paste, copy/paste!
That’s it exactly, Kevin. That’s it exactly.
Liz
Ooo…oooo…ooo Bill left a comment. He’s still alive!! Wordful Wednesday will be back.
[THIS COMMENT GENERATED BY A ROBOT {No!! not Robert....Robot}]
Someone owes me 53p now - pay up
I think it’s disgusting. This guy is the scum of the earth.
Yes it’s disgusting, abusive, wrong, and anything else that can be said negative.
It’s why online publishers need to learn how to moderate their businesses.
You all know how I feel about most of your blogs that have commented on this entry, but it’s time that someone told you something that you’ve probably all said or told others about ‘the biz’.
FREEDOM OF SPEECH…
The next thing I imagine will be some ‘push movement’ site created by someone trying to band everyone together…said group trying to convince government’s it’s a crime and effect change…etc etc.
Oh, my bad. We’ve already got the ‘Spam Controlled Site’ badge systems.
Nobody can control anyone else, but we CAN be accountable for our own actions.
Me, I play with their entries on my blog. On my other site I’d deal with them as they come, and change policies in comment posting if it affected the business in regards to my sight’s content.
The smart person would be the one that tries to create a relationship with the person responsible for the spam post site and see what they could learn, not only about spam but what other types of site code the person may come up with.
Liz, your in the hot seat on this one. I’d like you to make contact with the site owner and create a relationship with him, her, or their crew. That’s after you cool off and look at this as an opportunity.
Meet my expectations. I’ll expect your status within 30 days.
Feel the love.
(….oooo, bet that’s gonna cause train wrecks in Sim City 7’s Beta tanight!)
I don’t think it’s so much Freedom of Speech as it is Power of Money. Traffic translates to readership translates to advertising translates to revenues. Ambitious bloggers today might make up their own comments to create the illusion of interest in what they have to say. Just like students at the university needing to create essays to get the grade. Both are needs begging to be met.
Somehow we have to figure out what’s real and what’s not. Would a blog commenting service go so far as to create fake blogs that one can then backtrack to? I still think the integrity (as in, integral core) of blogging is in the true community created around various themes. Can a commenting service replicate that? Remains to be seen.
Why is it that the ugly monster’s head of greed has to pop up at every opportunity? Trust me though these kind of deals are offered elsewhere…just not wide out in the open like this. I constantly get messages add me as a favorite and I will add you…it’s the fastest way for me to be sure to never visit your blog!!
I was going to post something whiney about the whole situation but then I read DaddyP’s comment and well… he cracks me up so now I’m not able to whine.
But seriously.. are they serious? I don’t bother to read the useless comments that slip by the askimet filters, I just hit delete… so why would I want to read inane nonsense left by someone that’s being paid to leave a comment at my site. I’d probably delete it anyway… so I guess they’d be paid by the blogowner who hired them since they did leave a comment, but then I’d delete it and the backlink would be lost anyway so the blog owner paying for it is wasting their money.