A Comment about Comments (A Meta-comment?)

First of all, I'd like to thank all of you for visiting this blog and checking out the various posts I've put up over the past couple of years. I appreciate it, even if I don't express it!

Lately it has come to my attention that many people comment in various posts for the sake of commenting. You never get to see these comments because I delete them or mark them as Spam. The reason is simple. Even if they don't directly promote this or the other company or brand, they are:

1. too generic to add value to anything (sounding very much like something a certain politician would say when he was oblivious about a topic he's asked)
   
2.  void of information (honestly, some of them look like they have been written by an A.I. created for this purpose and as I know a thing or two about NLP and chatbots, I can spot this sort of comments from miles away)
   
3. sometimes entirely irrelevant to the post they are referring to.
   

Naturally, even if a comment doesn't directly promote this or the other brand, it is accompanied by a link, so there is SEO value in it. Having served as an SEO manager in a company once, I'm quite familiar with these tricks. So, it seems that the intent of these comments is not aligned with the intent of this blog, which is to inform people about certain data science and A.I. related topics and challenge conventional ideas and preconceptions about them. I am considering removing the commenting option from now on, so if this happens, know that it is in order to avoid these noisy comments.  Whatever the case, you are always welcome to contact me directly, like some of you have done already.

Again, thank you for reading this blog. I look forward to sharing more fox-like insights in the future!