First of all, let me try to explain you what I mean by the term “generic comments” :

These are non-genuine, non-spam comments. Unlike spam comments, these do not  contain too many links. At most 1 link and at times no link at all. They try to get past Akismet by pretending to be genuine. They are mostly targeted at Dofollow blogs (includes GotChance).

I hope that was clear. At most times, these comments are also held by Akismet. Sometimes, they do evade it, when the comment is a very short and doesn’t contain any links.

Now, let me show you some examples from my own Spam Queue :

1) A very generic comment that can be used on any blog and on any post : 

2) Again, a generic comment. I received the exact comment on two different posts (click to enlarge) :

3) A comment made possibly by an automated program (see below). Note that they include text from the title of the post (click to enlarge) :

Regarding the 3rd example above, nowadays there are many softwares out there that automatically post comments to a selected list of blogs. I didn’t know about these until recently when I started receiving spam comments promoting them. If you’d like to see, take a look at post-comments.com or commentposter.com.

Coming back to my question, do you allow such comments on your blog ? For new blogs, they may be increasing comment count. But, for fairly established blogs, they are a nuisance when visitors go through the comments. My personal stance is that, whenever they are caught in the Akismet spam queue, I delete them. I let them stay, if they are not caught.

Vote on this poll (if you are reading from via RSS, click through to see the poll ) :

My vote is for the third option.