Side Channels

I’ve first seen these on Kyle’s weblog and now I got one of my own (if you read my actual post, you’d notice I was way, way, waaaaaaaaay off in my prediction.)

These post related comment spam (PRCS) are ones that relate to the topic of the post. In Kyle’s case, it was obvious advertising by a bot without much content and even then, we were contemplating whether it should be deleted. But since we had the discussion on its merits, the comment had to stay.

The recent PRCS I got was obviously written by a human that wanted to link to his new webpage and it was very related to the post content. And although the person did ask for my opinion, I believe that it still does not constitute an attempt to spark a discussion. I concluded that it was motivated by PageRank, nothing more.

I’m leaving it for posterity because I am writing about it, otherwise, I would chalk it up as spam.

What do you think?

As a side note, I am getting tons of comment spam lately, any of you bloggers seen a spike as well?

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