Michael Specht

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Jobr.com.au using comment spam?

December 14th, 2008 · 8 Comments · Blogging · 6,976 views

Today I woke up to find some comments waiting for approval from a site jobr.com.au, a small job board here in Australia. The comments were typical of someone creating comment spam (such as nice site and :-) ) and on posts about a competing job board, all from the same IP address but with different mail boxes at the jobr.com.au domain.

I deleted them as they add no value to the conversation on this blog.

Did I do the right thing? 

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8 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Brett Iredale // Dec 15, 2008 at 8:09 am

    I have a simple rule on our blog and that is no blatant self promotion. The comments sound to be clearly that so yes you should have deleted them. It is junk you don’t want to have to moderate and your readers sure don’t want to read it.

    A quick whois shows the owner to be a “6 star limousines” so something tells me this might be a fleeting experiment for someone.

    nice site :)

  • 2 Adam Smith // Dec 15, 2008 at 8:14 am

    Hi does not look like a spam site its actualy a attractive site and a small little job site
    anyway my opniun should be banned

  • 3 Adam Smith // Dec 15, 2008 at 8:16 am

    opps shouldnt be banned i see no problem with it
    hehe

  • 4 Michael Specht // Dec 15, 2008 at 9:19 am

    @Adam not saying is is a spam site, more that just going onto posts about competitors and leaving comments of “Nice Site” or “:-)” is spam & is blatantly trying to just get links.

  • 5 Adam Smith // Dec 15, 2008 at 9:38 am

    Hey Micheal i totaly agree though i dont think it should be banned maybe we should give them a shot ? in my opinun

  • 6 Jobs Jobs X // Dec 16, 2008 at 3:43 pm

    great site!

  • 7 Gireesh Sharma // Dec 16, 2008 at 10:47 pm

    Hi Michael,

    The spammer was looking for a link back from your site. You deleted his comments. Well Done!
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    But what’s that – you added the link in your post. And that’s what spammer wanted! Bad Done!

  • 8 CamBendy // Dec 17, 2008 at 9:48 am

    With a single comment just like “Nice site” etc I would find that ok… even better if some reasonable comments were made.

    The fact that there were multiple posts deserves the ban.

    This coming from an IT guy who used to work for an org primarily focussed on the job market (with a boss obsessed by SEO and website hit conversions)

    Could add lots about this… but I wont get started!

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