The splots seem to come and go. I try to shut down the ones I can, but I find the situation mostly tossed back in my lap by hosts, which is very stupid; they all have abuse policies and ask that people report stuff like this.

*sigh*

Great post!

The splogs have found my site as well. I was getting inundated with spam trackbacks and comments so I had installed SK2 — that ended up flagging legitimate posts. So I went back to Akismet. Although I need to manually approve some posts – it’s better than going through and sifting through the dozens of spam trackbacks and comments that I get.

I haven’t taken the step of trying to shut the splog(s) down as yet – but if the amount of spam increases I’ll seriously need to look at doing just that.

Regards,

Mohamed

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So, some hosts out there are doing the good work.

@James, Hmm. Don’t even get me started.

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@ Melissa – I hadn’t realized I was about to fall prey until I had gathered my ideas for posts to write, sat down, and realized they were *all* about controversial posts from the same person… who, uh, seemed to be contradicting herself with every one.

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I have enjoyed reading this very insightful post. Very engaging and informative. Thanks for sharing.

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You know, it didn’t occur to me until after I posted a rebuttal to the “crappy writing = great content” post that I had just fallen victim to major linkbait. But I’m not ashamed. Because the bottom line is that people who are in leadership roles should not be handing out poor advice. It really bothers me and I felt that someone needed to counter. I was more than happy to do it!

As for Dooce, I love her blog and I don’t even know why. Of course nobody can be Dooce, or Problogger, or LOLCATZ (or whatever they’re called – icanhazcheesburger). But what we can learn from them is that sometimes when you do your own thing and do it your way, you can make it.

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