I posted in June about how the Blogging Tips top commentator list was being abused by a small number of people leaving pointless messagesin order to break into the top commentator list

In the last day or so I got over 50 comments from two people who left dozens of one line comments in dozens of posts. These posts added nothing to the discussion and some were completely unrelated to the post in question. Granted they did this at the end of the month and the list will be cleared for August but I still think that removing the top list is good for the blog. I hate to admit defeat but I have seen this happening every month for the past 3 months and I don’t see it stopping, top lists are susceptible to this kind of problem. I use Akismet for spam but beyond that I don’t want to spend a lot of time moderating. Infact, unless someone is spamming the blog or being abusive I will never remove a comment.

The july top commentator list was about to be cleared in a few hours anyways so no one is being directly affected. Of course from now on, those who comment here often will not have the chance of getting their blog listed on the sidebar.

I hope everyone can understand my decision with this. As you know, I want to reward regular readers and commentators. From now on I will just have to do it in another way. Remember, if you ever need help with something just drop me an email and I’ll do my best to help.