Exploitation of good will
Now, I don’t know how many people read my web site, nor do I really worry terribly much about who they might be, as I write it as much for my own aggrandizement as I do any other purpose. Mostly I write it to get ideas and thoughts out of my head and into some form that is more substantial. As part of that, I’ve set up the system to generally allow comments on my ramblings, because it’s always interesting to hear other people’s thoughts.
Unfortunately, these comments are being abused constantly now by spammers, who exploit the good will of those of us who open ourselves up to others comments, for financial and personal gain. Leeches on society, destructive in the extreme. I now have 50+ IP address blocks blocked from commenting on this site, and honestly, am getting close to just turning it off entirely, as waking up to 20-30 spam ads that I have to delete is quite annoying.
Who are these people? Why are they so selfish? Or do they actually live under some delusion that we give a damn about their “supplements” and such? More importantly, who are the idiots and morons, the adults who still play in the shallow end of the gene pool, who buy stuff from these leeches who encourage their anti-social behavior?
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Why are they so selfish?
They rationalize it as being no different from, say, junk mail.
And the costs are so damn cheap.
Really now, with all the murderers, rapists and child abusers out there, are you really that surprised a bunch of people can stoop to spamming?
Indeed, though I think it is the fact that they are rewarded (by those who purchase their offers) that troubles me more. It may be morally inappropriate to compare, but this is akin to giving a rapist a lollipop.
“now have 50+ IP address blocks blocked” – I wonder, anybody tried using bayesian filters for comment spam? It works pretty well for email. Just an idea.
In deed, and I’ve looked at it, but honestly, my Perl is so crappy any more that I’ve not relaly been able to figure out how to hack it into MT.
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Hmm all of my comment spams have been for gay porn….
I wonder why you get the supplements, and i get the gay porn? ;-)