Another dashing idea ! - Paid Comments

I was running through a couple of blogs and was hit to this post which I never thought would be possible. Marketers; yes I mean the SEMs (Search Engine Marketers) have reached a point where they'll do everything to get the inlinks from other sites, even if they are ignorant about the fact that most of the free hosts today are having nofollow on their comments sections. Ladies and Gentlemen bow down to the concept of paid comments. I am not citing the site here for the fact I am not the big advocate of paid posts and this guy (the blog where I read about paid comments) is into paid posting.

I don't have something personal about this guy but I don't like the fact that web journalism is getting poisoned by this activity, even if they disclose that they are into paid posts or advertorials. I am not getting into the details of whether paid comments are ethical or not. May be they are good marketing weapon (at least for the SEMs who suffer from the myopia) but the very fact that they are driven by the sense to make money and forced commenting behaviour takes away the essense of web journalism/blogs.