Comment moderation for news sites
I created this simple flow diagram for our editors who are new to comment moderation and comment spam.
When you’ve moderated a lot of blogs and seen a lot of spam you begin to learn the difference between spam and a genuine comment ( admittedly sometimes i just can’t tell)
So this diagram is for our new editors on some of our news sites. Getting a site in Google news attracts a whole new level of comment spam.
Its pretty harsh set of rules, comments will get zapped if you:
- drop a link in your user name or the post, and use a keyword as the anchor text.
- drop any link, then your comment needs to be outstanding.
- drop any link, then the site linked to better be good
