Email addresses and blog comments
I get a fair number of people who leave comments on my blog. I think it’s great. I read them all, screen out the spam and respond to the good ones. But there’s a rather disturbing trend, people leaving their email addresses in the comment body. I’m not talking about the field that explicitly says “Email Address” (or “Mail” or whatever else your blog calls it). I’m talking about the actual body of the comment. The part that everybody else gets to read (if you put your email address in the email address field, then only I get to see it).
The problem is, I get a TON of comment spam (relative to the amount of non-spam). That means spammers know about this blog and are actively scraping my pages looking for places to submit their
“materials”. That means they’re also very likely to come across your comment and find what? That’s right, your email address. So think long and hard about whether or not you really want to be putting your email address out there for the world to see.
On the other hand, if you need a cure for ED or some late night entertainment, by all means…feel free to leave your email address here.
