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Who doesn't enjoy ranting about spammers? But what about bloggers who not only approve spam comments but actually eat their spam by replying? Please stop.
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Well, Comment Luv is back on this site! I'm rebuilding the reader community and now have a way of rewarding real commentators. A couple of days ago I installed the CommentLuv plugin which:
"visits the site of the comment author while they type their comment and retrieve their last blog posts which they can . . . →more