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I got rid of 90% of my daily spam and bypassed comments* thanks to this trick! If like me you don't like impersonal comments, chain mails and other annoying copy paste messages, you probably say in your shout box, you rant it in a blog, and you probably even turn off HTML in your comments!
As I did, you probably get very frustrated to find out about half of the people don't even read your page prior to sending you their comments, and are just keeping sending them to you everyday until you remove or block them.
At first, I attempted to send back a friendly note to each sender to tell him (as politely as possible) about how I didn't appreciate the copy paste comments, but I didn't have a great success, some where not even reading my message and I was just loosing my time.
Read this article to find out all the details about this tweak, and how you can apply it to your profile and get rid of the annoying comments practically overnight.
* A bypassed comment / message is when a user access you using the friends list or online friends shortcut and display directly the comment or message page without passing by your page. This is considered a bad practice as it doesn't give a page view to the recipient, and it's usually used by a lot of people who send you copy paste messages. Read the full spam guard trick on yuwieschools.com A Unique Way to Force Page Views for CommentsGot a message from my friend Vince the other day who polled his friends to see if there was a way to force people to give you a page view when they comment. Somebody responded. By the time I visited Vince's Page in the morning, this is what he had set up:a "Comments Blog" ...In place of the normal "Comments section" is a link to a blog appropriately named, "Comments". Yuwie's official Comment Section is turned OFF from:
Control Panel > Edit Profile > Layout > Content > Comments > Remove
Some benefits and drawbacks are listed below for your consideration
(key: pv=page views, rv=referral views):
Benefits: Clean, fast loading page.Visitors will give you 2 pv: profile=1, blog=1.Extra pv from friends who mend their (old bypass) ways.Multiplier Effect. Referrals no longer bypassing add to your rvBlog's Page-Numbering attracts more hits (to pages 1, 2, 3, etc.)Multiplier-Effect. Referrals viewing pages 1,2,3... increase rv.You will know exactly WHO bypasses a page view to comment. Their comments still go into "comments", just not your blog. You can see them if you approve comments.Drawbacks: Real visitors may get confused, if they don't see your Comments heading where it normally is. Correct this by addiing a table in your shoutbox that mimics the original Comments heading.You may lose your friends who give themselves pv rather than you via the "profile-bypass" method.You will need to set to "approve comments" to see the ones who used the bypass method, and thus identify them and send them a personal message about the change.Good friends lose the cool option and benefit of the "Conversation" feature-- probably the biggest loss, here.You are not allowing people a choice. You're forcing them to a pv for you. Just like they force you into no pv when they bypass to comment. How important is it to "win"?Cummulative referral views are what ultimate pay you. So, is it important in the balance, in the big picture, if you personally get a few more views?Please look at the following two pages, before you draw a conclusion. Different styles, same concept: Vince's PageMarco's Page These are the first pages, of which I'm aware, that attempt to solve the so called "shortcut" or profile-bypass. (1)(2) Notes (1) "profile-bypass" is where the commenter clicks your comment link in their own control panel, rather than visiting your page. The comment becomes 1 pv for them, instead of for you.
(2) A previous tip, here in my column, showed a handful of shortcuts faster then the "profile-bypass", that have the benefit of giving a pv to the comment recipient.
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Thanks to Vince PD™ for his permission to bring you this tip, and to Marco for his substantial contribution to the concept.
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