Lazy jackasses who ruin it for everyone
Here's a petty annoyance I hate: you go to a blog, you read some interesting post, you want to leave a comment--and then discover the blog has obstacles between you and easy communication. There's an unreadable CAPTCHA you have to type in, there's a moderation policy that delays the posting of your comment, that kind of thing.
Which is why I'm really sorry any of you who want to leave a comment are going to have to start dealing with that.
Deleting the comment spam left by lazy, stupid, fucking jackasses who want to ruin the internet for everyone for the sake of putting a few dimes in their pockets hasn't been an enormously onerous task, but it has become something I'm doing every day now, and I'm finally bored with it. This isn't a hugely trafficked blog--maybe a hundred hits on a really good day--but the spambots still hit it, and it's not even just the old posts anymore (if it were, I'd solve the problem by activating the moderation for old posts option instead of using CAPTCHAs, which suck). There was even a brief period when responding to the occasional odd spam as if it came from a real reader was mildly amusing.
I have no idea whether comment spam actually even works for the mentally-defective asshole jackasses who engage in pissing all over the internet. It must at least work for the cretinous, ass-residue dolts who write the software that allows people to engage in it. But does anyone ever actually click on a link--or, in most cases, actually copy-and-paste a non-HTML web address from a poorly-spelled, grammatically-dubious ad into their address bar? I'm not just asking rhetorically: if some sub-moronic, drooling, basement-dwelling, fat, greasy, scum-fucking jerkoff who engages in comment spam happens to come across this post, I would love it if you tried to flail around defending your alleged "right" to make a "living" by vandalizing other people's virtual real estate--because I really want to give you an eyeful of what I really think, you ignorant shittard.
As for the rest of you readers, regulars and odd visitors alike: I'm sorry I've been forced to put a small fence up that you have to unlatch a gate for to get in and hang out. It stinks, and I don't like it either. But if you have a blog yourself, you understand: some people are destroying a communications and social tool that has made the world wonderfully smaller for the sake of pennies. I appreciate your patience, and I hope the new policy won't deter you from dropping a line now and then.
Which is why I'm really sorry any of you who want to leave a comment are going to have to start dealing with that.
Deleting the comment spam left by lazy, stupid, fucking jackasses who want to ruin the internet for everyone for the sake of putting a few dimes in their pockets hasn't been an enormously onerous task, but it has become something I'm doing every day now, and I'm finally bored with it. This isn't a hugely trafficked blog--maybe a hundred hits on a really good day--but the spambots still hit it, and it's not even just the old posts anymore (if it were, I'd solve the problem by activating the moderation for old posts option instead of using CAPTCHAs, which suck). There was even a brief period when responding to the occasional odd spam as if it came from a real reader was mildly amusing.
I have no idea whether comment spam actually even works for the mentally-defective asshole jackasses who engage in pissing all over the internet. It must at least work for the cretinous, ass-residue dolts who write the software that allows people to engage in it. But does anyone ever actually click on a link--or, in most cases, actually copy-and-paste a non-HTML web address from a poorly-spelled, grammatically-dubious ad into their address bar? I'm not just asking rhetorically: if some sub-moronic, drooling, basement-dwelling, fat, greasy, scum-fucking jerkoff who engages in comment spam happens to come across this post, I would love it if you tried to flail around defending your alleged "right" to make a "living" by vandalizing other people's virtual real estate--because I really want to give you an eyeful of what I really think, you ignorant shittard.
As for the rest of you readers, regulars and odd visitors alike: I'm sorry I've been forced to put a small fence up that you have to unlatch a gate for to get in and hang out. It stinks, and I don't like it either. But if you have a blog yourself, you understand: some people are destroying a communications and social tool that has made the world wonderfully smaller for the sake of pennies. I appreciate your patience, and I hope the new policy won't deter you from dropping a line now and then.
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My spammers were a little less lazy, they had found a way around the email notification procedure, and one even found a way around the prior post moderation I set up. So it's also captchas for me until I see their servers stop hitting my blog (we're getting close, they only try once a day now).
If they want to pollute MySpace, go right ahead. (grin)
Dr. Phil
kreflan -- a non-stick Mexican dessert treat
NICE.
Wordpress.
Oh, Akismet, how I love thee.
But, yeah, that totally sucks, Eric. Spammers will be against the wall when the revolution comes.
eliziggr = Prof. Higgins' Eliza android which also transforms into a yacht.
I know you and Jim have been having trouble with it, but so far I appear to be invisible to the spammers.
Of course, now that I've talked about it, I'll be inundated...
porcupen = an outdoor container in which you keep porcupines.
BRAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
On the other hand, Blogger's Captcha is of the less-intrusive type, readable and easy to input. No biggie, Eric. Not that I am a frequent commenter, mind you...
And really, Word Press.
It's no secret that I have vastly different life view than most of you here, but you do at least allow me to have my say. That is integrity.
I was recently posting on Mrs. Bitch's blog, but she's recently been deleting anything I've said. I do get a bit more scathing on there, but "when in Rome". It's no wonder her readership looks like about three or four people.
You're blog is stellar, and if I have to type in a few extra letters for you to avoid the spamfux, then so be it.
You totally made that shit up.
Lying sack of shit!
Hideous Arse-Candle.
Oozing maggot-ridden leftover.
(Oh, and I think your blog's great too. I just figured as long as Leanright is singing your praises, I ought to rip you down a peg or two....ya'know...for balance!)
And Lean Right, if you really want to be like us cool kids, you need to start playing the captcha game. It's amusing! It's healthful! It's fun for the whole family!
arysate = The drink enjoyed by Assyrians.
As previously mentioned, I too have recently started moderating comments, but not due to spam... well, maybe it could be called that.
David, I will address this one more time, here (and I apologize in advance, Eric), since I won't be responding to you on my blog. I started a blog to avoid needless arguments with whining rightwing douchebags who aren't so much interested in debate as they are tossing out an insult and then getting defensive if someone responds in kind. If I want to hear and read that crap I'll visit your blog or one of the many others out there. Don't hold your breath.
My blog is two months old and I'm averaging a respectable number of pageviews per day. How about yours?
dulane = where Tatto's plane needed to land when Fantasy Island's airport was busy.
For anyone really interested in pageviews here at Giant Midgets: in the past thirty days, per analytics, I had 4,041 pageviews, 2,451 visits, and 824 visitors. The most visits I had on a single day, I had 111, the least, I had 36.
A toast to the hope that spammers perish in Hell with their eyeballs stung by wasps and their tender nether bits assaulted by hummingbirds while they're roasted on spits by ferret-headed demons. Sorry. Suddenly went all Boschian on you there, happens sometimes. I think I may have had too much of the popcorn that came into the office today--one of those big sampler tubs with chocolate-coated, caramel-coated and cheese-coated popcorns in it. Sugar high.
HCDSM gets over twice the traffic as SOTSOGM (including the pr0n hits), and yet I have virtually no issues with spam, while you appear to be inundated. What algorithm are these retards using? It can't be traffic, since there doesn't appear to be any rhyme or reason to it, and it certainly isn't content. I would hazard a guess that the average intelligence of a SOTSOGM post far exceeds my own, which would imply dumbasses would be more likely to hang out with me than with you.
I don't get it.
ougni = A term used to refer to multiple cavemen named "Oug."
I recently saw something--I think it may have been on Slashdot--saying that one of the newer spambots being distributed actually does target less-hit pages, in an attempt to find blogs that have been abandoned; unless they're trying to game Google's search engine, that practice would seem utterly counter-intuitive (the aim, presumably, would be to elevate spamsites' rankings by creating a condition in which those sites have been heavily-cross-linked--a game that Google purportedly nixes).
There's no way to slice it that it isn't an obnoxious practice. I really wish something painful, embarrassing and chronic would happen to the people responsible. Herpes outbreaks that spell out "I SUCK" in cold sores on their faces seems apt.
BRAHAHAHAHAHA
I think my best day evar was like 75 hits. I've gotten 3 spam hits, and blogger asked me before posting them (for some reason).
I love your blog, and I will play the CAPCHA game if need be...
Dave, drop it. This isn't the place for you to get into an argument with another blogger about her moderation policies.
(Mrs. Bitch, I trust you'll be gracious enough to let this be the last word on this here at Giant Midgets.)
Fox? Really? They gots potty-mouths over there?
thipart: Just a little taste of chicken.
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Actra = jerk in your blogging group. There's always one.
It's the word "midgets," I'm sure. That's like a porn spam magnet.
Of course, it doesn't explain the suddenly vasty increase in spam on my blog. As I said when I was forced to turn on word verification, I want to see these sons of bitches torn apart by wild dogs.
ingsh = the language spam is often composed in. Used primarily in Nigerian internet cafes.
pider - a 7 legged arachnid
But I will check out IntenseDebate Comments, Mrs Bitch, thanks.
likeject = I like you, but you're still leaving.
nalionst = A fetishist with a thing for false nails.
It's not necessary to say "Jim" and "Sick bastards" in the same sentence. It's redundant.
What?
Corses = that raw nerve grating feeling you get when Air Supply comes on the radio.
So yeah, now I've just found several bits of comment spam on posts that were previously being hit by comment spam that DID get emailed to me. And I should probably check over the rest of the blog. And I've turned on the captcha too. -.-