OK, comment spammers, let's go through this again

I'm talking to you, "Peejay Li", and anyone else who thinks you're going to comment-spam this blog:

You see, I get an e-mail every time a comment is posted on this blog. Around every three months, some fuckwad sets a bot to go in and comment-spam here. It's usually World of Warcraft crap, or cheap blue jeans and sneakers, but it doesn't matter what the product is. I don't spend a whole lot of time on Facebook, so I have time to, and ultimately will, go in and delete every last one of your spam comments. So you are wasting your time.

Our No-Spam Policy

Once again, a note to all comment spammers: Every time someone comments on this blog, I get an e-mail. When I see comments on 25 posts that come through all at once from the same person, all worded almost identically, with a few actual comments scattered throughout but containing the same link to some scam or another, I'm going to delete every last one of them.

When I see people appropriating the screen names of regular commenters to spam their own sites, I'm going to delete those comments too.

If you want to link to your own personal site or legitimate business, that's perfectly acceptable -- if the link is relevant to the discussion at hand. But I am not going to allow spammers to link to get rich quick schemes and other scams on this blog.

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A few words about comment spam

Every couple of months, we seem to get a rash of comment spammers. I restored the post word feature in an attempt to reduce this sort of thing, but it seems to have limited effect. I've never written before about my comment spam policy, so here it is:

ALL COMMENT SPAM WILL BE DELETED.

Sometimes comment spam is easy to identify, such as the World of Warcraft one with every third word linked to some other site. I also assume that anything posted in Asian characters is spam, because these usually arrive in bunches of a half-dozen or more, all within a few minutes of each other, many of them on older posts. Lately they've been disguised as "I just discovered your blog, I really don't have anything to say but just wanted to post a comment" -- followed by a link to another site.

Forget it, dude. I didn't fall off a haytruck yesterday, and I know comment spam when I see it.

Linking to relevant posts in your or someone else's blog is perfectly OK. Linking to your positive affirmation tape business is not. If you want to advertise, buy a blog ad. The link is in the left-hand sidebar.

I don't want to start having to moderate comments. It interferes with dialogue and since I am offline for about 11 hours a day, I don't really have time. So for now we'll stick to the current structure. But if you're a comment spammer, be advised: spam this blog, and you WILL be deleted. And spare me your free speech arguments. You have a right to disagree with me on this blog, and dissenting comments will be kept unless they are threatening to me or to others. You do not have a right to free advertising any more than you have a right to squat in my house.

We now return you to our regularly scheduled programming.