Minor Comment Spam Blizzard
Well… Since I put up this blog (the Wordpress-based, new and improved Ursus Pacificus), I’ve been getting more and more junk comments from questionable entrepreneurs (obviously posted by bots).
This morning, I found a bunch of identical comments from a bot at nofacesbook.com (I’m not providing a link… if you want to see it, you should be able to figure it out). This site (nofacesbook, not mine) appears to be, based on its splash page (partially obscured by a Javascript “are you 18 and not easily offended” dialog), an amateur porn site roughly patterned on facebook (the popular social networking site). The comments all start with the subject “adult friend…” and contain, “Great Blog! Your post was very interesting! I think your points are excellent and I look forward to reading more of your posts! … ”
Gee, thanks, adult friend!
Most of the comments I see are bot spam… but most of them say things like, “X@nAx - no scrip!” and have a thousand links in them. Those are pretty easy to pluck out and mark as spam… so are the ones that say, “Online Discounts Online”.
If you operate one of these bots, and you actually DO read (and spam) sites like mine, I’d like to share something with you: I have your IP and will will block it. If you don’t read my blog you won’t care, obviously.
I’m not here to promote your business, shady or legitimate. In this day and age, it seems the marketing pimps have overtaken all other forms of traffic on the Internet, and nothing is sacred. If, through my own travels, I have found a product or service which I truly endorse, I’ll post something about it… but I will not approve any commercially promotional comments.
If you read my site and don’t send spam comments, please feel free to comment. This is kind of a community thing… if you agree (or disagree) let it be known. Tell a friend, spread the word… even if you’re a fundamentalist reconstructionist evangelical Christian (I’m sure your comments will be disagreeable, but hey… ) I post mostly to spark thoughtful discussion (and occasionally to trumpet some cool happening in my life).
If you have something to say about what I’ve written, say it here. Tell a friend.
If you are an entrepreneur, please bear in mind: I will not be your mule.