Did anybody get bizarre comments from non-users that seem totally irrelevant to hubs today??
Its not unusual or me to get a few comments a week, but 6 in one day from non-hubbers who left me messages on 6 different hubs that seemed to have absolutely nothing about the hubs. One was a message asking for prices for a wedding! On a hub about a film. Seems so weird, is it spam?
A few days ago I got about 10 and did deny them. some just made no sense at all-just jibberish and one or two were spam about getting more traffic.
by Deidre Shelden 13 years ago
Although I continue to have traffic to my hubs and was earning a bit of AdSense dollars, suddenly when April came AdSense earnings stopped. Could it be the addition of HubPages ads?
by Adrienne Farricelli CPDT-KA, Dip.CBST 3 years ago
Lately, I would say in the past couple of months, I get comments where a person posts an address. It has numbers in front and then there is the name of a road. No city or zip code. I get them in different articles and from different user names although the way the user name is formatted makes me...
by Billie Kelpin 10 years ago
Every time I use IE as a browser, my computer gets hung up or I can only see part of a website, or I get an error message. I'm just curious as to why it even still exists.
by ptosis 12 years ago
Isn't anybody upset that congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has totally free full coverage healthcare?Yet if she wasn't part of the elitist privileged ruling class America - that Arizona, the state she represents - would give her NO help until she was 40% BELOW Federal Poverty Level from medical...
by Bikash jha 13 years ago
we all know comments effect mind of new readers who are unknown to our previous works, now the question is will you approve bad reaction of your readers on your hubs?dont you think people should know fair things about your hub not only good things but also other kind of responses?
by Ellana 11 years ago
Do you vote down a comment just because you don't agree with it?OR... do you vote down comments that have a lack of substance, are offensive, or are irrelevant?
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