Commentstorming spoke about commenting on a range of blogs - going from one to another via their blogrolls. In a comment on that post, Joseph wrote
Hi Andrew, thanks for the great idea and Leon thanks for mentioning of saying something meaningful. When I leave a comment I feel a supportive comment is appreciated and any insight or inspiration I may have as I read the blog. I will take someone from your blog and read them and leave a message that gives back for what they have given me. Commenting is such a wonderful opportunity for showing appreciation and to fire the fuel of the bloggers creativity.
I’ve previously quoted Dan Saffer on the Art of Successful Blog Commenting - his advice is timeless.
This morning I read two articles on commenting:
- John Chow’s evil ways to increase blog comments, and
- Darren Rowse’ 10 ways to hurt your blog’s brand by commenting on other blogs.
John suggests that you can boost your comment numbers by:
- faking comments, sometimes as someone famous, and
- buying comments.
Darren suggests that the 10 cardinal sins of commenting are:
1. Excessive use of Signatures
2. Excessive Self Linking
3. One or Two word Comments
4. Not Reading Posts Before Commenting
5. Flaming and Personal Attack
6.’Anonymous’ Flaming
7. Always Being First To Comment
8. Dominating Comment Threads
9. Keyword Stuffed Names
10. Not adding value to the Comments
Which article will help you to comment with class? 
I think that highlights the difference between John Chow & Darren Rowse. “Faking comments from a famous person”? Oh purlease!
Hi Aurelius,
thank you for your comment. Sorry once again for not making the blogger’s meetup at the pub the other night - life gets in the way sometimes.
I’m sure that a lot of people do fake comments - it is a bit like faking wikipedia accounts to game links out from there - if there is money in it, some people will cheat.
Just quietly I think that John tries to do the right thing and the “evil” stuff is a gimmick, but sometimes he does lay it on a little too thick
Cheers, Andrew