Manual Blog/Forum Comments vs. Automation

[digihammer1]

What is everybody's opinion regarding outsourcing blog/forum commenting, i.e. outsourcing a real person.., or using one of these blast services on BHW?
Do the blasters get close enough to your niche to make it relevant like a real person would or does it really matter?
I realize that the automated services can blast a shit load more than a person could with comparable cost/pay so I guess I'm after quality not necessarily quantity.
Would appreciate sharing your thoughts and experiences.

 

[SuperLinks]

If done properly, blog commenting and forum posting via MANUAL methods are much better than automated.

That's because you'll have a higher opportunity to get the posts LIVE, rather than denied or deleted. Plus for forums you can than find pages that have PR and bump them, thus getting solid pagerank links or comments from relevant blogs (rather than no relevancy).

Relevancy is great for conversions...

 

[GreenGoblin]

Manual anything will always be better then automated however then u have to think how much time it takes to achieve a decent position this is were automation comes in when your competing with a site that has 10k back links + i don't think manual is a good approach