The laziness of comment spammers is really starting to piss me off – I’m sure most of us are guilty at spamming every once in a while, under the most liberal of definitions of “spam”. Why, a while back I went through and found every single blog post I could find that mentioned Mumble and drummed up awareness for the up and coming 1.2.0 version – because it addressed most of the complaints people were griping about.
Was I necro-posting? Absolutely. Was it maybe spam? Sure, you could see it that way. But at least I made an effort to be on-topic about it and posted something remotely relevant.
However – and god bless akismet – I’ve been bombarded with just complete and utter crap. If you leave an on-topic comment I’ll probably leave your link up regardless of how garbage your site is (because mine’s not the greatest) – but when you write a comment that’s littered with a bunch of different names for slimming pills and your comment says something like “this is very interesting to me and I have bookmarked your site and will become a regular reader” on quite possibly the most boring post on my site… no it’s pretty obvious all you want is the link.
… and you can’t have it.
