Sometimes you just gotta RANT. And when you’ve got to rant, well, the only way to get it out of your system is by ranting, then moving on.
I keep getting sp*m (rhymes with “ham” and is made also of pork, in the real world) comments on this website and most of my other article oriented websites. Those are comments that idiots try to post using, usually, perfectly clever and useless software in an attempt to get a link from my website back to theirs. And their sites normally, as you can tell if you see the structure of the web address in their comment link, are pushing some of the general crapola “enhancers” or outright p*rn (rhymes with “horn”) sites.
In the first place, the software I use to run this website has some very effective tools for screening out sp*m. In the second place, no comment gets posted here unless I approve it.
But the sp*mmy messages that come along are much more sophisticated and almost realistic — much more than in previous years. Let’s say, for example, I publish an article here about the best way to get an online auto insurance quote. Such an article may be a bit complicated or detailed, depending on how hard I work at it (and I’m a lazy sort of guy).
But if some bozo who’s name and email address I’ve never seen before, posts a comment something like, “At first, I didn’t foresee to understand what you were saying at. But upon further reflection I do understand it and appreciate you should you write more on this matter” — that’s a pretty good clue that I haven’t picked up a dedicated new reader!
The part of all this comment sp*am that bugs me the most is this: Why in the name of all that’s sane and sensible do people continue to do this garbage?? I personally know of NO ONE (and I know a couple of hundred people who do writing online) who lets such goofiness get published on their websites. And I know of NO ONE who goes to these sp*ammy, worthless, and even p*rnographic sites as a result of links published on a “normal,” decent website.
AAAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There, end of rant for today, good readers. I feel better now. A little better anyhow. For awhile. Until I get notice of the latest sp*ammy comment I have to delete.