Hackers and spammers.
I was just sent a password reminder from Stumble Upon.
I didn't request it.
Luckily for me, SU sends the actual account holder the password reminder, and not the hacker who actually wants the access.
It might be a good idea to go and change your SU passwords people.
As soon as I got that email, that's what I did.
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Now onto the spammers.
My blog is a do follow blog, I like that my readers and faithful commenter's can get some link love back from the search engines when they leave me comments.
It's the nice thing to do.
What I don't like is when a blogger who does not actually read my blog, leaves a one liner comment, and a link to their site in the url field to a particular category of their blog they want the do follow love on.
Now what's funny is, that I have one blogger who has been doing this for several months, and the really amusing part is the comment rules on their own site.
Comments on this blog are made DOFOLLOW and are moderated. Spam will not be tolerated and the following will be cause for removal:* using a "Keyword" name or just wanting a backlink
* posting for commercial links
* urls to commercial blogs listed as your site address
* posting url's in your comment
The emphasis is mine.
See how it says it will be considered spam if someone is just commenting for the back link?
Well, this person has those rules on their blog, but they come to my blog and do it all the time.
They leave links to the many blogs they just started and need link backs for, they try to promote a category they want bumped by the search engines, they leave the url to a specific post they want to promote.
Look, if you don't allow it on your blog, why the hell are you doing it on mine?
I edit out all of your links, haven't you caught on to that yet?
I delete anything after the .com when you post a long url to a category or post you want promoted.
If you leave a link to a new blog you just started, I delete the entire url.
I've had it with your policy of it's not allowed on your blog but you'll do it on mine.
You know damn well who you are too Miss Tackle it Tuesday.
You're not a faithful reader or commenter, you do it strictly for the links.
I'm not on any of your blogrolls, I'm not on your RSS feed reader, and you're not on mine, but you seem to think it's totally ok to take advantage of my do follow.
From now on, any url you leave, even if it is just to your homepage, it will be deleted.
My do follow kindness is for my faithful readers, friends, people who have been reading my blog for years, don't judge me, actually know me, share their lives with me and vice versa, talk daily in emails, laugh out loud with each other on forums, care about each other and our families.
I don't read your blog, you don't read mine.
You read the very first post at the top, leave a one liner like "oh, feel better", and then use the url field to link up whatever it is you're trying to promote.
I'm not here for you to take advantage of when you don't actually read my blog on a daily or even weekly basis.
You and I have absolutely no blogging interaction with, and haven't had any for months, like October 2007.
Yeah, that's when I quit blogging for that company and quit posting on those forums.
You're not a member of any of the other forums I'm part of, we don't communicate with each other, and your blatant attempts to take advantage of my do follow, is grating on my last nerve.
Any and all links you place in the url field or comment field, will be stripped out.
I'm done with you.




Comments
You go woman! What goes around comes around and I agree with you 150% and then some!
Posted by: Holly | April 11, 2008 6:12 PM
Holy crap! That's just unreal to do stuff like that.
*I "think" I know who it is*
Posted by: Charlotte | April 11, 2008 6:37 PM
Wow...good for you for posting about it and calling that person out. You have guts girl!!!!
Posted by: Christie | April 11, 2008 6:41 PM
Way to go! I hate link droppers and especially link droppers that are hypocritical.
And just to show that I'm not a link dropper, I left mine out. :) Besides, if some people followed a link to my blog they might be blinded. Mwahaha!!
Um, sorry. I'm just a little silly today. Please carry on.
**Fixed your link. muwahahahah!
Posted by: Jennyjinx | April 11, 2008 7:42 PM
You must be having one hell of a day...but I am glad you are taking a stand and calling these people out.
Posted by: Mindy | April 11, 2008 10:18 PM
I'm pretty sure I know who this is, too & quite frankly, it's rude. As far as I know, she not only doesn't read your blog, she hasn't ever even had the decency to be polite you.
Posted by: Dyane | April 12, 2008 8:33 PM