Got to thinking about comment spam the other day.\u00a0 I assume that comment spam is like the regular old variety , in that it has a fantastically low success rate, but that it is so cheap that it is still cost-effective, but really–some of the things these people seem to be selling just seem like they wouldn’t work at all, just sitting there in the comments of someone’s blog.\u00a0 But the market has spoken, I suppose.\u00a0 The sorts of greedy sociopaths who trade in spam, comment-based or otherwise, wouldn’t be doing it if they didn’t make money at it.<\/p>\n
It is annoying, though.\u00a0 On a number of occasions, I’ve gone to someone’s blog, an author I’d just discovered for example, and tried to post a cheery comment, only to find that the comments had been closed on the appropriate post.\u00a0 The comments on this blog had started out as open forever, but I eventually had to set them to close after a few weeks thanks to the blizzard of spam.\u00a0 Of course, the more posts one makes, the more spam one gets if they don’t close off after a while.\u00a0 I had one post, in particular, that was attracting spam like flies to a bloated corpse.\u00a0 Hmm, that may not be the best metaphor.\u00a0 Lets go with flies to honey.\u00a0 Except let’s face it, given the choice, flies will go right past the honey to the bloated corpse every time.\u00a0 So maybe the spammers are more like fruit flies.<\/p>\n
So there you go.\u00a0 Spammers are like fruit flies, only not quite as well-versed in grammar, and my clever ideas are like delicious gourmet preserves spread on the toast of WordPress.\u00a0 Glad I cleared that up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Got to thinking about comment spam the other day.\u00a0 I assume that comment spam is like the regular old variety , in that it has a fantastically low success rate, but that it is so cheap that it is still cost-effective, but really–some of the things these people seem to be selling just seem like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}