So I got a new kind of spam comment on my other blog today. The text of the comment was actually making an attempt to engage with the topic of the blog post. So how do I know it was spam?

• The person’s name was odd.
• The person’s e-mail address was clearly based on someone’s name…but it wasn’t the same name.
• The person’s website address was for some kind of business that sells vitamins and anti-oxidants…the sort of thing you get in comment spam. It certainly didn’t look like a personal website.

This presented me with a bit of a quandary. On the one hand, I don’t want to encourage spammers, or give them any help in increasing their Google page ranks. On the other hand, the comment was somewhat to the point. The guy had obviously read the post, I figure he deserves credit for trying.

So I accepted the comment…and deleted the website address from it. 🙂