Comment Spam From Advertising Networks

I belong to an am active in a few advertising networks.  These networks over time become  a community where you do get to know other bloggers.  Quite often commenting is a part of the experience using these networks.  For the most part my experience with receiving comments as a direct result from the advertising networks has been rather good.  A few days ago I was hit with comment spam directly from one of the advertising networks.  Comments on my blogs are set to moderation because I feel that until something is done to eliminate comment spam, moderation is the sure fire way to nip it in the bud.  I'm not going to name the blog that was doing the comment spam but if you were in that particular network you likely got hit with it as well.  This blogger targeted 4 of cooking blog posts all with almost identical messages regarding a summer giveaway.  Since I pay for advertising on that network and participate in the network I could easily have complained about this type of comment spam.  I didn't.  Rather I rejected the comments then rejected this blogger's ads so in the end the blogger hurt themselves by spamming me because now there are a few less blogs that their ad is going to get out on.  Moreover, that blogger's blog has hit my blackball list so should it appear on any other advertising network which I'm sure it will, their ad will immediately be rejected.  It is really annoying when a member of an advertising network thinks it is ok to leave comment spam on other member's blogs. 

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