I would rather manually moderate comments than have real comments censored without my ever seeing them.
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I clean out spammy comments regularly. The challenge is that many bloggers think ANY comment no matter the quality that is left by a business or uses keywords is bad.

What we must do is raise awareness and moderate comments without offending our readers. Because I often “meet” my commentators elsewhere and recognize their Twitter UserNames or sites I now know that many REAL people tend to leave what most bloggers would consider spammy comments.

We can’t just delete them – we must share with our commentators that short comments that do not add to the conversation are likely to get deleted and that they must put something in the comment that relates to the post where it appears.

Don’t be so fast to dismiss keywords that “do not relate to your niche”. What if they are learning from you? Do you not want them as readers?

What if they have a business unrelated to yours but want to buy things you write about? Do you really want to run them off?

Isn’t it likely you may want to know more about something THEY write about? You might even want to buy something from them someday. If they want to know you are you SURE you don’t want to know them?

I hope you’ll read my posts about why supporting small businesses improves the economic conditions for all and these on the benefits of KeywordLuv and CommentLuv posts.
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I just saw evidence that Akismet is deleting valid comments so we need an alternative to Akismet unless they change that behavior.
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BTW you’re definitely getting too many comments that it’s hard to filter those spammy comments. I’ve seen quite a number of them here .

Check out my posts about How to Use KeywordLuv and How CommentLuv works.

Sites that use those plugins provide a way for you to get anchor text links more easily. If you use them properly your comments are less likely to be deleted.

I am also working with the developer of CommentLuv to make that even easier. He has already created default links that allow you to select your own http://comluv.com/news/anchor-text-links/“>anchor text links more easily.
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