Monday, March 31, 2008

Ticked

I didn't really check my email address where my comments are sent yesterday and I rarely ever check older posts for new comments unless I see them in my inbox on my email site. But, I did check it this morning when I woke up and found that someBOT had posted two lengthy and offensive comments on older posts.

I have deleted them and I'm not really taking it personally, as we all know the spammers have computers that comb for keywords, then leave nutty shit behind at all kinds of places. I'm not the only "victim" I'm sure.

However, now I feel a need to do something about it. I can reject anonymous comments - but I have close friends and a husband who doesn't have a blogger or Open ID account and I don't want to punish them for some spammers unfortunate target of bloggers. I could block the IP address, but we all know there are proxys to get around that and I could block IPs 'til the cows came home and somewhere, somehow, a spam bot would find a way to get around it.

I could enable word verification, but people hate that (me included) or I could moderate the comments by having them go to my inbox to be approved prior to posting. Somehow or another, I don't like any of my choices.

For now, I'm just going to sit tight and see how things go. If it continues, I'll be forced to deal with it. I apologize to any of my readers who might have run across it - it was crazy, crazy ranting.

Of course, the Evil Twin was less than supportive when I tried to discuss it with him this morning. Thanks for having my back, dude.

11 comments:

  1. Did you have any advertisements for Viagra or Penis enlargements?? If blog spam is anything like email spam I'm sure that is the majority of what will "pop up" so to speak :)

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  2. After that description, I'm really sorry that I missed getting to read those comments. LOL.

    Try not to let it bother you. I don't think there's any way to completely control spambots. No one is going to mistake a spambot rant for a friend you agree with. Besides, sometimes they're just weird enough to be comedy gold.

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  3. Been there. I got one last week that I swear was written by the Unabomber. Annoying as hell.

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  4. I got one too!!

    One wonders what the purpose of it all is.

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  5. Yeah, those are vaguely disturbing even when you know they're made by robots and not some hairy, sweaty guy with a loose waistband. Ugh.

    I will give wordpress credit, it's much better at catching and spamming those sorts of things before they ever appear on the blog. On the flip side, wordpress also notices all of the spam-content websites that link to my blog, which I'm sure happened with blogger but I was unaware of it then, so that's a bit creepy.

    Oh, the perils of public life.

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  6. I've gotten a couple of those comments... but then they just kind of stopped without me doing anything.

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  7. I had one this morning on my lesbo post! I printed it out-- it took 34 pieces of paper and used all my black ink!

    It talked about WWII, the Holocaust, homosexuality, bad Italians, blacks, Jews, on & on about other crap that made no sense to me. In the end it called me a bigot and said I was prejudiced and going to hell! LOL!

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  8. I've been getting those for about 5 days. I just delete them.

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  10. Use haloscan like me. I have no problems at all. Ever, in fact.

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  11. Man, I hope it wasn't one of my posts! haha "crazy, crazy ranting" seems to sum up most of my posts ;-) That sucks though to have a bot like that :-s

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