Blogspam Finally Starts To Irk Me

Unlike a lot of bloggers I haven’t let blogspam get to me for a while. The expressions of indignity (“they, why, they just can’t do this! Blogspace is our space, pure and virginal! This is so… so… AOL!”) amongst bloggers have been amusing to me. I quietly installed MT-Blacklist and filtered away at my blogspam, figuring such inconveniences were just part of the reality of having a presence in the wild ecosystem of cyberspace.

But over and over the bots these blogspammers use have been hitting the same entry on this site, probably because it’s linked to from several fairly high-traffic blogs. I’ve finally decided to close that entry for comments in an attempt to stem the now bi-daily tide of blogspam. What sucks is that anyone who wants to make a legitimate comment on that entry is now unable to. Blogspam has finally moved from mere nuisance to genuine roadblock for me and this blog.

So fuck you, blogspammers. Fuck you and everything you stand for.