Thursday, September 08, 2005

Spammers are like terrorists...

At least in the buzzkill area.

So, if you look at my last post, Afroflyjetcito, you'll see a cute kid in his high chair. Upon posting that blog entry, I immediately received two comments. I was a bit excited, like, "Wow, people are just WAITING for me to post such interesting content. That's great!"

So, the first comment went like this:

"Hey, you have a great blog here! I'm definitely going to bookmark you! I have a atlanta adult services [name of incredibly innapproriate site/blog]. It pretty much covers atlanta adult services related stuff.Come and check it out if you get time :-)"

Apparently, someone took a look at my entry and said, "Hey, here's a guy with a cute kid. He must like porn. I'll send him a cool link." Talk about shoddy target marketing. Then again, I don't think a lot of porn guys actually went to business school, so you can't really blame them.

Then, I got another one from a self-proclaimed Hurricane Katrina prayer/healing minister. He must have thought, "Hey, here's a guy with a cute kid wearing a ski cap that's too big for him. I wonder if he's a refugee. I'll send him a link."

Now, I can understand that point of view a little better than the porn thing. But still...

So, now I've had to resort to a word verification step in order to have people post comments and avoid automatic spamming. It's a slight extra step, but I think your comment is worthy enough to go through the trouble.

1 Comments:

At 11:56 AM, Blogger Ben said...

The way I control the spam is that I monitor my blog like every 2-3 minutes, and that way I can delete spam postings as--or shortly after--they occur.

 

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