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1. John Keith
   Comment by John Keith | 01/12/09 at 10:59 pm

   You are absolutely right in deleting them.

   I saw the comments, earlier, and was going to delete them for you, but I know how strongly you feel about allowing all comments.

   I have to fess up … I’m the “anon” who called him a loser. I couldn’t resist.

   The “Singapore Property Guru” comment is spam, too.

2. JohnG
   Comment by JohnG | 01/12/09 at 11:17 pm

   Hell no you aren’t overreacting!

   I would have deleted them too if readers had that ability.

   But I must say, their typing or English skills are so poor that I can’t imagine anyone actually thinking they could do anything but screw up anything they got involved with. I think anyone with rent money would avoid using someone who uses another website’s comment section to try and get business. I wouldn’t dignify them by calling them your competition.

   And please keep deleting garbage comments like that.

3. Observer
   Comment by Observer | 01/13/09 at 12:34 am

   Let the cheap-a** mofos buy an ad!

4. Bob
   Comment by Bob | 01/13/09 at 12:42 am

   No your reaction was perfect…this site is successful because it is not very pushy when it comes to sales stuff is informative and allows various points of view. It is hard to believe someone would the site like that.

5. j
   Comment by j | 01/13/09 at 9:18 am

   maybe all the readers here should give that company a call. I’m sure there are many creative ways to let them know how we feel about their spamming this site.

6. Alex Steinberg
   Comment by Alex Steinberg | 01/13/09 at 12:12 pm

   RENT FROM ME!!! Just joking Keith. Seriously, this site is way too important, so whatever you have to do to keep it the way it is, JUST DO IT!!!

7. confused
   Comment by confused | 01/13/09 at 12:15 pm

   How do you decide what is a positive and what is a negative comment? I always thought you just had comments. Some I agreed with and some I didn’t.

8. John Ford
   Comment by John Ford | 01/13/09 at 12:48 pm

   Confused, I may have worded that wrong. What I meant to say, some comments agree and others disagree with my blog posts. The bigger point I was trying to make is please don’t leave comments that sell a product or service.

9. landlord
   Comment by landlord | 01/16/09 at 10:12 am

   I’d say you are too polite. I’d simply stop by their office once a day and take a poo on the floor of their bathroom. They sh1t on your website, I’d sh1t on their office.

   The whole business model for rental agents is based on spamming. They tell tenants that an apartment is a good deal when it’s overpriced. They tell landlords that an apartment is overpriced when it’s not. They represent no one yet take a commission like they represent someone. They’re about as useful as Nigerian spammers/scammers.

   They’re trying to ruin Craigslist. The spam the site with thousands of properties that don’t exist to get people to call them. When I post an apartment for rent on Craigslist, I put in all capital letters for rental agents not to call me, then every agent in the city calls asking if they can list my property. In the beginning I’d let them list my property, only to have them tell me it was overpriced. Somehow, I always seem to rent my properties out the the first person that views them.

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