What Burns My Ass?
You want to know what burns my ass? A flame three feet high (ba-doomp boomp). But seriously, it really pisses me off at how the blog comments are being used for [aggressive advertising] ...blog spam, if you will.
It's nice to see that someone appreciates what you have to say ...enough to make a comment about it. But, the comments to my various posts (so far) have all been some generic platitude like, "awesome blog" or "I like your blog", and then they proceed to display a link back to [the commenter's] blog or some other site where somebody's trying to sell you something. I, now, make it a policy to immediately delete any comment that isn't directly relevant to the post in question.
And what's worse, so many of the blogs themselves are nothing more than commercial advertisements. As I cycle through the [recently published] blogs to see what other people are talking about, I find that 75% of the blogs are nothing more than pages full of links to various products and/or services.
Only occasionally do I run across one (of those that are in English) where someone is actually saying something, using the blog to enter his thoughts, feelings, and/or ideas. And if I'm really lucky, I'll stumble upon a blog where what's being said is of actual interest to me.
This is a supplement to my regular [weekly] entry; it was just something I had to get off my chest.
Addendum: (Aug. 20, '05) I originally made this post, in part, to lessen the "acridity" implied in deleting someone's comment. But then I thought, "Who am I really being concerned about?". The majority of these [questionable] comments are not being made by people at all, but by spam bots. DUH! Of course they are. Those little fuckers are everywhere, like roaches, and no matter what you do, they persist ...so I'll just keep deleting.
Addendum: (Aug. 26, '05) Thank you Blogger for instituting the "word verification" feature. That should take care of those damn bots.
It's nice to see that someone appreciates what you have to say ...enough to make a comment about it. But, the comments to my various posts (so far) have all been some generic platitude like, "awesome blog" or "I like your blog", and then they proceed to display a link back to [the commenter's] blog or some other site where somebody's trying to sell you something. I, now, make it a policy to immediately delete any comment that isn't directly relevant to the post in question.
And what's worse, so many of the blogs themselves are nothing more than commercial advertisements. As I cycle through the [recently published] blogs to see what other people are talking about, I find that 75% of the blogs are nothing more than pages full of links to various products and/or services.
Only occasionally do I run across one (of those that are in English) where someone is actually saying something, using the blog to enter his thoughts, feelings, and/or ideas. And if I'm really lucky, I'll stumble upon a blog where what's being said is of actual interest to me.
This is a supplement to my regular [weekly] entry; it was just something I had to get off my chest.
Addendum: (Aug. 20, '05) I originally made this post, in part, to lessen the "acridity" implied in deleting someone's comment. But then I thought, "Who am I really being concerned about?". The majority of these [questionable] comments are not being made by people at all, but by spam bots. DUH! Of course they are. Those little fuckers are everywhere, like roaches, and no matter what you do, they persist ...so I'll just keep deleting.
Addendum: (Aug. 26, '05) Thank you Blogger for instituting the "word verification" feature. That should take care of those damn bots.
posted by gieau_sf (8:25:00 AM)
-- All non-relevant comments will be (have been) deleted!
1 Comment(s):
To those who attempted to leave a comment to this post:
Agreeing with the sentiment of the post and then proceeding to leave a link to your site, one that has nothing to do with me or this post, is precisely what I referred to in the post.
Also, having an empty or unavailable profile does make the commenter(s) seem a bit disingenuous.
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