It’s a real shame KeywordLuv is gone completely understand and feel your pain of having to deal with all the comments hassles. I think it is really commendable that you put so much effort into trying to help commenters get some link juice back.
Anyway all the effort is appreciated,
thank you

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I am completely with you on this one. You have to take the steps to maintain the quality of your blog. KeywordLuv plugin or not, I’ll keep coming back just for your valuable contributions. Thanks, Alex.

Although its a good idea i thought it would cause problems for some people. As with most things which have a benefit to others, they end up getting abused and understandably action has to be taken.

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It’s a real shame that spammers tend to ruin all the good stuff.. KeywordLuv is a great plugin, and I love to see sites using it. But you’re right - if moderation time is way up because of it, it simply has to go.

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Awesome blog here, I never took advantage of the KWL anyway.

A little disappointed in the popularity contest though, I am about to upgrade and didn’t know it wouldn’t work.

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Well what can you say. Spam will always be a pain because people that spam think they are doing good for themselves but in the end just get black listed from everyone site.
I always enjoy the great infomation you provide to us bloggers and help make us better bloggers

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As someone who is new to most of this, it is refeshing to hear about the potential downside to what would appear to be a very useful plugin. As in most things in life, your time is your most valuable commodity. Once it is gone, it is gone. Invest it wisely.

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I really must be a minority. It seems (human) spammers are afraid of me LOL

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Oh thanks for the link, I’ll let ya know how it goes
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I do get my fair share I suppose, I just never felt it to be too much of a pain. I learned a neat little trick also…

If you get a decent enough comment, but you just “know” it’s a spam attempt….edit out the URL and keep the comment
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i dont think removing keywordluv will help u much in controlling spam.
spammers would love to get a keyword for a backlink but they wont mind having only dofollow links

Good for you. You’ve taken away a spam abuse honeypot but kept the links worthwhile.

I was thinking of installing this plugin today. I’m going to try it but I’ll also watch what is going on with the comments on my blog.

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I have been using the keywordluv plugin for awhile now and love it. It does bring a little more spam but I am okay with doing a little moderating. It only takes me a few minutes and it benefits my readers a lot.

Alex,

It’s too bad that the Spammers ruin this feature for everybody else.

I can’t help but think that this creates a business opportunity for someone that comes up with a viable solution.

In reading the post and the comments I couldn’t help but think of an independent 3rd party service that would score commenters and their histories, much like credit scores are for lenders. Bloggers could then decide at what level a commenter would need to be at to be able to comment on a particular blog.

Newer blogs might have a more flexible policy with regard to blogging score and more established bloggers such as yourself might have a higher standard in order to allow commenting.

Just my two cents.

Retired Early in Ajijic, Mexico,

Joel Smith
Casa Preciosa, Ajijic, Mexico

I’m still pretty new to blogging, so I thought it sounded like a great idea. After all, that’s why I put up a blog is to get visitors. If the spammers get out of hand I guess I might reconsider, but by them maybe I’ll have a following. Good discussion in the comments.

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Alex, I completely agree that if people are to use this plugin it is a good idea to close comments on older posts (especially those that have pr). These are the posts most likely to be targetted by spam comments, which is not only annoying for the blog owner, but also for genuine readers who has to read through comments which are often just copied from other comments above or have no real relevance to the topic being discussed - the typical “Great post, very informative” type nonsense.

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On my main blog, I have over 50,000 spam messages, Do-follow and keywordluv bring plenty of them. But it doesn’t bother me. It isn’t that much of an effort to delete them. With Keywordluv I get 10-15 good meaningful comments a day on my that blog, without it, unless I am posting all the time I get very few, 1-2 a day. Your readership is much larger so you can afford to loss it, but I love all the new content that all these comments bring to my blog, My commenter’s do all the work of adding new content to my blog.