I am also under the mindset of trying to find a couple of comments in my own blogs and sometimes in others that I like to reward with an upvote. It just helps bring the good ones up out of the bottom of the dumps where all the spam goes to die. Always disappointing when you get into a blog with dozens or more comments and zero of them have upvotes by the author so trash just sits there as the first person who put out a spam comment. Even worse they are all just “such and such paid for an upvote” great that what I want to see when I get to bottom of your blog that you spent a bunch of money.

The comments that drive me crazy are ones where time was spent into creating a somewhat vague but almost believe paragraph(s) of a comment. They tend to target a certain tag or even certain topics within a tag. They are almost believable and so close to getting an upvote then you go and check and you see they are just copy/paste spam.

As someone who enjoys comment sections, those tend to be very disappointing as you keep running onto them. The effort was spent but only once to try and lure in upvotes. Some of them are getting very clever in trying hide they are just copy/pasting I won’t go into further detail of some smarter ones I ran into as I hate for it to spread even further.

I usually spend a few minutes on my comment so sometimes it’s just hard to avoid being yet another “broken record” by the time I get it posted. When I started those type of comments where not yet made and I’ve already invested in the time. I’m not a speed writer and I have to spend some time on formatting/ editing/ rearranging thought.