Spam Spam Spam
You know who I hate more than the incessant spammers who clog my e-mail and the comments section of this very blog? Those people who fall for their crap. Those are the people that make spamming a worthwhile vocation. This blog gets 30 or more spam comments every day. Thankfully, they’re all filtered to where I can easily delete them without you ever seeing them. It frustrates me, though, that valid comments have to go through the same moderation process sometimes because of those idiot users who make the spammers money. UGH
You know what else annoys me about spam? It’s all for the same stuff, using the same subject headers, same descriptions, same format, etc. If I didn’t respond to it in my e-mail box the first 5,000 times (literally), what makes them think I’m going to have a change of heart today? I’m not going to the North Pole, using Hoodia (I don’t even know what that’s for, nor do I care to), bailing out your Nigerian freedom effort, or buying your Rolex. Get over it.
I half want to allow all spam comments to this post to go through, just to give you a taste of the action. However, most of the spam comments are for posts that are days, if not weeks, old.
Ironically, I can just about guarantee that any comment posted to this entry will be send to Moderation, flagged as possible spam. ARGH!
November 20th, 2005 at 10:09 pm
It’s not about getting people to click on them. They’re trying to get onto the site so that more sites will point to the destination sites, and thus raise their ranking in Google. That way, if someone does want Hoodia or whatever the spam du jour is about, it’ll come in high-ranked in Google.
They’re gaming the way Google works, and using all of us to do so.
November 20th, 2005 at 10:10 pm
(Oh, and I posted without landing in the moderation filter. :) )