ALL COMMENT SPAM WILL BE DELETED.
I am deeply irritated by advertising, and one of the great joys of the blogosphere is that you can get away from it. I will not host Google's ad (non)sense on my blog, and I will not allow anonymous spammers to use my space for their own enrichment. A number of people have posted links in comments that are relevant and interesting- and that's wonderful: another perk of the bogosphere. But I won't have commercial BS on my site.
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And you don't have to let idiots who piss you off leave comments either.
Hooray! PS - I just found your site by chance a few weeks ago, and have it bookmarked. (I think I found it looking for Corvallis stuff on Google.)
But how will we ever learn what the new hot product is if you ban spam?
A couple days ago, I received 23 comment-spams on 23 different posts on my blog, all from the same person/whatever (is it really a person?). It took them over an hour to make the comments; it took me 30 minutes or less to delete them.
But I caught them in progress! It would have kept going. The next day at exactly the same time, when I had comment moderation on for posts older than 14 days, they started the same thing. It took them several attempts to finally figure out to post on a recent post, which I caught immediately because I happened to be online.
The comments were all in Japanese, but all linked to one or more porn sites.
For now, I have comment moderation enabled, which I hate. Yesterday, though, they didn't even try, so maybe they won't be back (I hope!).
Dr. Monkey- I've been very lucky so far not to draw trolls and jerks. I don't want to squelch people who disagree with me, but if I eventually decide to delete a comment that is just rude, I'll probably post on that too.
aReader- thanks!
Dean- watch TV, especially the TV Guide channel, or during advertising prime-time, 1:00 to 6:00 AM. And I promise I'll still stop by and read your stuff if you want to host ads at The Dean's Office. I just won't look at the ads.
Silver- When the option is there, I almost always mark the "Email follow-up comments" to myself. I got a couple of those spams you mention in my in-box. Being in some unrecognizable characters, with a link, I just assumed they were spam. But 23? Man, oh man. I really don't want to have to moderate comments. Blogger does have a way to block particular commenters, but the spammers can just crete a new account, I suppose.
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