December 5, 2009 6:17 AM

Permission to flay them alive and boil them in oil?

I enjoyed reading your work! GREAT post! I looked around for this... but I found you! :) Anyway, would you mind if I threw up a backlink from my site to your site?

Just in case what I'm about to say leaves any of y'all wondering, let me just be frank from the outset: spammers of any sort are scum, the worst sort of excremental human flotsam. Were it up to me (and thankfully it's not), I'd strip spammers naked, cover them in honey, and stake them to a fire ant bed in west Texas. Then again, I'm just not a nice person and generally a perfectly miserable excuse for a human being....

Over the past couple of weeks, I've noticed comment spammers adopting a new tactic. I've been getting an increasing number of commenters leaving glowing, effusive praise about something I've written. Don't get me wrong; I like being appreciated for my work as much as the next person. Then again, I'm a good writer, but I'm not THAT good. I began to get suspicious when these sorts of comments began to show up on older posts. Then it gradually became increasingly clear that these trolls were comment-spamming me, and before long they dropped any pretense, using whatever product they're pushing as their commenter ID and/or weaving it into their comment. The latest iteration goes something like this:

good post!! if any of your readers are interested in quality ARCH SUPPORTS just click the highlighted links.

The people are like some sort of social disease, preying upon something good and doing whatever they can to pollute and corrupt it. Asswipes like this are why I have to moderate my comments. I wish I didn't have to, but comment spam seems to be a recurring problem. Honestly, it really saps a lot of the enjoyment I get from blogging. Constantly fighting these sorts of brush fires is no fun at all. I do have a message and a request for those who see it as their right to be doing this: please, take your act somewhere else. I don't want or need what you're selling, and I'm sick and tired of having to deal with parasites like you. Pissing people off seems a damn poor way to peddle your products, don'tchathink? If nothing else, try keeping this in mind: I have a very special place reserved in my own personal Hell for you.

Knock it off, willya?

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