Am I a magnet for the druggies, freaks and sexual deviants of the blog-spam world??
In the last three days I have removed well over 120 spam comments from this blog, for topics ranging from bestiality and porn with both extremely old women and very young women, to erectile dysfunction aids, prescription painkillers and prescription sleep meds.
Now, I have to confess, if I were to visit some of the sites in the sexual side of the blog equation, I'd probably need some sort of sleep meds to get any rest afterward. Somehow the idea of bestiality... well, let's just leave that where it belongs: in the garbage.
And aren't prescription sleep medications and drugs like Levitra or Cialis sort of diametrically opposed to one another? "Oh, crap! Hank, wake up! You fell asleep in the middle of things again!"
For a while I had open comments to my blog, simply because (1) I like to trust people when I can, and (2) it's sort of bothersome to have to come here and "Approve" everything that anyone leaves as a comment. That went away after a few months, and now I have to approve every comment, no matter who writes it. I suffered a rash of this sort of thing, unwanted comments, many of them nonsense or gibberish but with trackbacks attached. The most recent spate of blog-spam all had trackbacks attached, too, and that's their primary reason for doing this, I suppose, as there are no links directly in the comments themselves. I guess it helps with SEO scoring or something for them to have trackback URLs listed on as many blogs as possible, so they play this stupid game.
And it IS stupid, too! After all, do they really think I'll approve these silly things?
However, don't think that I mind approving the REAL comments! I welcome those, and hope you leave one.
One thing that really annoyed me is how MacLife magazine played a part in this onslaught. It's true, they did! I happened to look at one of the trackback URLs for Meridia sales, and it went back to a MacLife web site forum page! Someone had opened a free forum account there, and had made this huge long post advertising Meridia for sale, with lots of keywords.
I complained to MacLife (hey, I'm a subscriber--I can complain!) but I don't see that they have done anything about it yet.
This is one of those times when I'd like to go Medieval and draconian on someone. People who spam like this, as well as the people who write virii and worms, should be taken to an appropriate place and staked out, naked, over a fire ant mound. Leave for a couple of hours, then release them with a warning. (We have had fire ant mounds on our property. I've been stung by them, so I know the pain thereof!)
Two-time losers should be left there for a few days. {Insert evil chuckle here...}
(Parenthetical note: I suppose there would be some who read this, who would declare with horror that my proposed punishment would be worse than any pornography or drug abuse that the spammer might encourage. To those people I say, "I certainly hope so! How else would it be a truly effective deterrent?? Besides, it would only happen to the initiator, not to those whom he/she had ensnared.")
