It’s been awhile. I’ve been busy and then gone and then busier. I have not doubt it’s the same with you.
I am sure by this time your appetite for something even semi-profound from me is overwhelming. There is a subject I have been meaning to write on but have continued to put off in the hope that things might change.
Yes, boys and girls, it’s time to talk about comments. You may have noticed there are not a lot of comments. This isn’t a big deal. I read some blogs of people that can write well and actually have insights and they don’t get many comments either. And to truly honest with you, I get a ton of comments. I have the account set up to email the comments to me and I have to approve them before they are posted.
Now before you go calling me some big anti-free speech Nazi, I thought I would give you a sample of the nearly ten potential comments I receive nearly every day. Yes you got that right, I get roughly ten comments to be evaluated every day. I have posted none of them. Why, you ask? Here’s a sampling from the last couple of days:
As you can no doubt deduce, the authors are clearly articulate but I have refused to post their comments below my entries because deep down I am a bigot who can’t stand anyone who doesn’t see the world the same way I do. Reread the comments – it’s it clear to you that they wish to undermine the nirvana I am trying to cultivate.
Given the substantial quantity of these sorts of comments, I often wonder if they are generated by some robot combing blogs and posting and posting and posting. The other option is there is some poor sap exploiting some free bandwidth somewhere, mindlessly posting to random sites and collecting a few pennies when a comment somehow gets posted, and someone happens to click on the link, and then decides to buy something. I doubt this is the case but if you were poor and had little to no money and had access to some internet café in a third world country, how would you try to earn money?
Option A is that you could post meaning comments (to nearly meaningless blog entries) or you could spend the time sending millions of emails claiming you are a queen or a barrister or the widow of the late Sir Francis Hillary, ESQ and need some help getting your fortune out of a repressive African country, which would you chose?
The emails for all these comments were driving me crazy and so I set up a rule to put them automatically in my deleted email box (it saved the problem of deleting them manually). Unfortunately, I see there’s a comment about copyright laws and some material in another post and so while I sort that out, feel free to comment.
Backhanded pandering
July 18, 2008Comments
It’s been awhile. I’ve been busy and then gone and then busier. I have not doubt it’s the same with you.
I am sure by this time your appetite for something even semi-profound from me is overwhelming. There is a subject I have been meaning to write on but have continued to put off in the hope that things might change.
Yes, boys and girls, it’s time to talk about comments. You may have noticed there are not a lot of comments. This isn’t a big deal. I read some blogs of people that can write well and actually have insights and they don’t get many comments either. And to truly honest with you, I get a ton of comments. I have the account set up to email the comments to me and I have to approve them before they are posted.
Now before you go calling me some big anti-free speech Nazi, I thought I would give you a sample of the nearly ten potential comments I receive nearly every day. Yes you got that right, I get roughly ten comments to be evaluated every day. I have posted none of them. Why, you ask? Here’s a sampling from the last couple of days:
Comment 1
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Comment 2
prestigiously antiscians warlikely unopenable querier cyclopedical upstick kanara <a href=”http://www.glensplace.com/files/Breakfast/Huevos_Revueltas_con_Cebollas.htm” rel=”nofollow”>Huevos Revueltas con Cebollas, Pimientas, y Tomates</a> http://primetimecrime.com
As you can no doubt deduce, the authors are clearly articulate but I have refused to post their comments below my entries because deep down I am a bigot who can’t stand anyone who doesn’t see the world the same way I do. Reread the comments – it’s it clear to you that they wish to undermine the nirvana I am trying to cultivate.
Given the substantial quantity of these sorts of comments, I often wonder if they are generated by some robot combing blogs and posting and posting and posting. The other option is there is some poor sap exploiting some free bandwidth somewhere, mindlessly posting to random sites and collecting a few pennies when a comment somehow gets posted, and someone happens to click on the link, and then decides to buy something. I doubt this is the case but if you were poor and had little to no money and had access to some internet café in a third world country, how would you try to earn money?
Option A is that you could post meaning comments (to nearly meaningless blog entries) or you could spend the time sending millions of emails claiming you are a queen or a barrister or the widow of the late Sir Francis Hillary, ESQ and need some help getting your fortune out of a repressive African country, which would you chose?
The emails for all these comments were driving me crazy and so I set up a rule to put them automatically in my deleted email box (it saved the problem of deleting them manually). Unfortunately, I see there’s a comment about copyright laws and some material in another post and so while I sort that out, feel free to comment.
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