I have been noticing a lot of blog comment spam lately. I was reading Annabel’s blog and noticed she got hit especially hard the past few days. I would click on her comments hoping to read something interesting from one of her blogging friends and would get to read a crass comment about freaking’ laser hair removal or some other stupid shit. Laser hair removal? WTF? I thought the big money making market was in trying to grow more hair not trying to remove it unless there is an upswing of men trying to be like George Constanza from Seinfeld. Ah, I can see it now; the bald look is in. Everybody wants to be like that sexy, bald captain from Star Trek the Next Generation, Captain Picard.
Anyways, I have been getting a lot of comment spam on my radio station blog. For some reason it is much favored over this blog even though that blog gets only a trickle of viewers (most of those hits come from me listening) and this one gets about forty people a day. I did some reading and those comments are auto=generated by a computer program that searches out blogs with anonymous commenting enabled. They must also search for key words that will get them more hits via search engines thus my music blog getting hammered with crap comments lately.
Blogger has a new feature where you can stop this. Just go to the dashboard and read the latest entry by Biz Stone. You have to authenticate your comment by inputting a five to six letter code. I am debating on adding this feature though. It just looks like it would be a pain in the ass to do all the time every time you want to comment. It seems it would deter real readers from commenting as well as comment spam. I guess I will just keep deleting that crap unless they start to flood in and then I will have to give in and relent.
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