If I notice someone skimmed over or just read my title only and commented on just that then I delete it, I don’t spam it. Why because maybe they will learn that skimming a post or commenting of the title doesn’t make for writing a good comment, makes them look inexperienced. I will give a person the benefit of the doubt. Unless they are persistent to NOT read and continue posting then I spam it.

Blatant SPAM usually gets caught in the spam folder but those that don’t I do spam, then delete permanently.
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I guess part of my lack of tolerance for spammers comes from years of putting up with them as moderator for forums as well.

– Actually, Val brings up a good example of the different ways to handle comments. I don’t think your way is wrong, it’s just better for you.

I’m curious to hear how others handle comments on their blogs.

You are far nicer than I am. You actually changed the name? WOW, it’s sent to spam on my blogs, I don’t give a dang who it came from. Spam is spam. Yes, I realize that some VA out there probably took a few minutes and found my blog online, but then they picked out 1 of 5 canned responses that would work so they could get their clients backlink-keyword loaded crap on my site. That to me is spam

I do hate to trash a good comment, and I’ve totally done that too where I grab their first name from their email address, or gone to their URL to see if their name is there, or a few times I just named them “mike” or “bob” LOL

I think you’ve done a great job here, teaching people who might not know how this all works – newbies and such, like we once were. Like we’ve been discussing, it does seem that there is not enough ‘good’ newbie information out there lately – and this is a great start to that!
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