"Flattering" Spam Posts

Attracting -- and Deleting -- Spam

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."

Actually, when it comes to blogs and spam posts, it's the other way around: 'flattery is the sincerest form of imitation.'

By that, I mean that the usual m.o. of people posting b.s. responses on blogs to piggyback on their popularity -- and drive traffic to their own Web site and whatever they're hawking there -- is to open with an faux compliment.

So, I have now seen -- and deleted -- innumerable posts on this blog that start out, "loved your post on . . .," then close with the spammer's URL (http://www.buymycrap.com/ or some such).

I do try to delete these whenever I find them, but lately the pace seems to have picked up ("a high quality problem to have," as they say).