Spamalot
My blog has been hijacked by pornographers.
Normally I get a couple of comments a week, which is all very nice, and shows me that at least it’s not just me reading the blog. The other day though I logged in to find 534 comments had been left in the hour since I’d last been on. “Hmm…” I thought to myself. “Clearly my report in the Local Area Partnership meeting has captured the public’s imagination.”
Sadly it was not to be, as I discovered that instead of a varied discourse on the merits of the Prestwich Plan, my comments were all very generous offers from a foreign gentleman wondering if I was interested in some free movies he had to offer. All I had to do was click on the link he kindly provided, and I was promised certain lewd acts which bordered on the illegal but which were without exception free.
I declined his repeated offerings, but sadly he has not gone away, and keeps bombarding me even though I have told the blog many times that his IP address is spam.
Apparently this is happening to a lot of my fellow bloggers, and it’s very annoying because not only does it take time to delete them, but there’s also the chance that the occasional genuine comment on the merits of Bury Council will get washed away in the torrent of free naughtiness. Like the digital-age version of a nun getting lost on Haight-Ashbury in 1967.
Any words of advice on dealing with the problem will be gratefully received. Although I reckon you should email rather than comment…
Rick
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