Normally I wouldn’t bother to highlight a spammer, but with powerful tools available to prevent blog post spam such as Akismet and Bad Behavior, the only spam I get lately is stuff that is manually posted by hand, or from some new bot which hasn’t been profiled yet.  And of those that do make it, the destination URLs are so obvious that nobody (intelligent) would click on it anyway.

New comment on your post #77 "Episode 35 – Community Roundtable #2"
Author : podcast directory (IP: 98.148.145.202 , cpe-98-148-145-202.socal.res.rr.com)
E-mail : webmaster@www.podseek.net
URL    : http://www.podseek.net/
Whois  : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=98.148.145.202
Comment:
Couldn’t have said it any better

Now, some may wonder how I can be sure that this is spam.  I mean, it appears to be a podcast directory which is commenting on a post about a podcast. I have to give them credit for the blog bot (or person behind it) choosing a somewhat relevant post, but in reality there are some red flags:

1. The email address.  Nobody uses as their personal email address “webmaster@”.  And for that matter, nobody uses an email address with a hostname which begins with “www.”. However, this is not reason enough to kill this comment.
2. The comment itself, “Couldn’t have said it any better”.  I can’t tell you how many times I have seen this exact text in spam comments on my blog.  It’s canned text from a blog spam bot, and it’s not very convincing.
3. The google search “link:podseek.net” has 46 hits, many of them from the same site.

So anyway…don’t support a site which resorts to this strategy please.  And I hope this mini-rant helps you to detect spam in your comments in case you had some ambiguous ones.  And be sure to use anti-spam tools on your blog!

(Hyperlink removed from above…please don’t link there, they do not deserve it.)