I had submitted this blog to a couple of free web directories. The end result is that I don’t have much of traffic, but I do get plenty of spam comments. Now recently it has reached a new milestone of 100 spam comments per day.

I think spam study will be a fascinating field. Most of the spam is auto generated, but I do get occassional manual spam. If I have a post on “ruby”, the comment will be something like “your ruby knowledge is amazing!”, flattering indeed!

Then there is a kind of spam message no one is going to approve. These are long comments and most of them contains over 10 links! These guys seem to survive on blogs which are not moderated.

I had even some comments pleading not to delete them.

Now you would be wondering why I am writing a post on blog spam? Well, today I got a reason - I got a gem among the comments that needed moderation. Check out the following screenshot.

This is guy is telling me not to delete the message and he says “the money from spam will go to help hungry children in uganda”! Funny that he calls the message as spam

I don’t know whether this tactic will work. Ok. This might work. After all, even in India nigerian spammers are able to cheat some innocent (read: greedy) guys.