blog spam

Rex and I have noticed with complete disdain worthless comments made immediately after a posting on our blogs.

These comments all follow a pattern, "I like your blog!" "I've bookmarked it." "Please visit mine." "Here is where you can find it." I call it blog spam.

They never say anything about the posting. I don't think they even read the posting. This is just another form of spam.

Too bad.

There is an endless string of people using the internet for one purpose, they are trying to get something from you, usually your money.

Usually I just delete this tripe but a couple of days ago a blogger from Australia posted just such a useless comment. I looked him up, went to his blog and made a comment on his most recent post asking him to please not make such comments on my blogs.

You would think that I punched his mother in the nose.

He sends me a letter complaining that I am too sensitive, I don't know why, and that if I can't take it then I shouldn't be on the web. And of course, he finishes by calling me a name.

Well I don't know what he means when he says I can't take it since there was nothing personal in his comment at all. It was just blog spam. I like your blog, come look at my website. Yada yada yada.

I reply, look fellow, if you really looked at my blog that's fine, but your comment looked a lot like blog spam. I'm sorry if I offended you. Here is an example of what I mean. I did a cut and paste of some other blog spam so he could see. I said I was sorry if I was wrong, again.

He wrote back. Your this, your that, yada yada yada. That means he wrote back and called me a bunch of names. Charming, them Aussies. Some people can be very brave when they have thousands of miles in front of them.

If I comment on someone else's blog, it will be about their posting and they can look my blogs up by visiting my profile. I won't ignore their post just to say 'Look at me! Look at me!'

Thanks, but no thanks to blog spam.