Not applicable, since most comment systems add rel="nofollow" to the links written in comments.

Wouldn’t want to delete them, but just plead for some more input and comment balance.

They promptly commented again saying that it wasn’t spam, and that what I had blogged about was nothing new (and could be done in a more simplistic way). The guy had completely missed the point of the post, and ended up just ended up wasting his own time, and looking at little silly doing it.

But sometimes its hard to tell honest pimping from the real spam. I guess its to do with context and relevance.

I had to disable comments a long time ago on my blog, since it was spammed to bits. As a moderator on a large forum I see tons of posts like those two every day. Some people will do anything to spam.

I even had an email at the webmaster address of our office today, inviting me to list our site on an art directory. We’re a government agency …

However, without links Web will be a boring place … and the “line” between spam (wrote to do spam) and interesting external links is really tiny, that’s why I usually prefere an admin panel to choose what’s spam and what’s not instead of moderation (post for free but please wait a minute to view your post).

The second example is a bit different, but it doesn’t explain why his script is better and is, again, little more than spam.

If anyone cared about the things that I wrote about and left comments like that, I’d probably have to be convinced not to delete it instead of being convinced that I should. (Did that make sense?)

I do, however, tend to not give people the benefit of the doubt when it comes to the Interwebs.