So the blog gets a fair bit o’ comment spam. It gets filtered to the quarantine and every so often I go wading through that slime hole just on the odd chance someone real has commented on a post but got falsely accused. This is the degree to which I secretly covet comments on my…
Somebody’s comment spam scripting agent is having the hiccups. I just found this one in my comment moderator queue: { {I have|I’ve} been {surfing|browsing} online more than {three|3|2|4} hours today, yet I never found any interesting article like yours. {It’s|It is} pretty worth enough for me. {In my opinion|Personally|In my view}, if all {webmasters|site owners|website…
Link spammers are now getting a bit tetchy. Here’s a sample from the spam filter for the blog’s comments:
In the past week, I’ve had more than 2K spam comments submitted against this post of mine from way back in March, 2008. Crazypants. Anyway, the volume does not slacken and moderating those at 20 posts at a time is kind of a suck. I’ve turned off comments for any post older than 60 days.…
You can smell it in the air. You can hear it rumbling in the distance. You can see the dust cloud on the horizon… So the commentary in this post seems to have struck a chord, or maybe a nerve, with the St. Johnny’s crew—especially the righteous Anthony Whorebath. A man who would not normally…
So I posted a podcast today as I do on occasion, especially on Sundays when the dogs decide it is time to wake up long before I would like and/or Elz does. The few spare hours on a Sunday morning are nice for their self-directed solitude. However, we digress… So, like I said, I post…