What's up with the abundance of comment spammers lately? The Lesson Learned has been struck by several comment spammers of late. Trashy spammers who have left links to pron* sites. And I can't help but think that spamming my site is a big waste of time on their part.
First of all, The Lesson Learned does not harbor pron links. Those comments are promptly deleted and the IP address banned from future comments. Not that I think the spammers would even attempt to leave more comments, nor do I think that blocking the IP address is very effective as they are most likely dial-up users. But deleting and blocking makes me feel better and that’s what is important. It makes me feel like I’m taking control of the situation.
The other reason I think spamming my site is a waste of time is that they always burry their comments in the archives. It's as if they believe that posting to archived entries will go unnoticed. Little do they know that comments are listed by posting date.
* Misspelling is intentional.
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