I didn’t even know that it is capped now. But it seems that social media is walking away from hashtags entirely, as it has been abused too often by spammers.
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The amount of spam flooding my website has once again increased. I have to spend more and more time filtering out genuine comments, and as AI-generated nonsense becomes increasingly convincing, scammers are using ever more sophisticated bot comments to sneak their links onto websites.
Comments on my website are therefore closed again for the foreseeable future. I apologize to everyone who wants to leave a genuine comment, ask a question, or simply reach out. I’d love to engage with you on my website, but the amount of spam has become unmanageable.
My website is small, I don’t make any money from it, and I simply can’t afford another monthly bill for a costly spam filter or comment management team. For now, the only solution I can think of is to close the comments.
If I ever reach the point where I’m a real author selling a decent number of books and building a great community, I’ll use the money from book sales to pay for a solution that filters out 99% of the spam without stealing so much of my time.
But I haven’t reached that point yet. Maybe I never will.
Until then, I’m tired of the scammers. I’m disillusioned by the endless stream of spam comments. I’ve simply had enough. I give up.
Comments are closed.
Instagram is different from X when it comes to hashtags. In the past, I saw IG posts with more hashtags than caption text. But it seems like hashtags are also losing importance on that platform too.
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Genuine might be the magic word. I’m by no means big on X, but I get some likes and comments now, and most of them just feel like people are trying to engagement farm. If had it many times that someone posted a question that seemed genuine, but once I answered, they simply wanted to sell me their services. Experiencing this from the other side of the interaction made me stop replying to other people’s content as well.
Say something when you can actually help people or are genuinely a fan, but otherwise not saying anything is way better than trying to engagement farm.
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Has follow for re-follow every worked online? I’ve come to the conclusion that I’d rather have one genuine follower who interacts with my content than 1,000 fake followers who just want the re-follow.
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