my first blog spam

Thursday 10th January 2008 08:43:18 PM

Now that everyone has become a muslim from staring at the previous "make me a muslim" post I thought it'd be a good time to make a comeback. Nah who am I kidding? The real reason I'm updating is to mark the fact that I got my first ever automated blog spam comment today (well 32 in total if I'm being honest), and get this I'm actually happy about it.

Yeah I know spam is a real pain in the behind for most blog authors and probably takes a lot of their time but I've never had to deal with it before. The reason being that this blog is custom coded and doesn't follow the same templates as Blogger or Wordpress (which spammers aim for) this can only mean one thing. Before the spammer could run their pesky little bot they had to specifically code it to align with my comment template, which would mean they thought my blog was popular enough and/or worthwhile for them to take the time out to spam it. Ha ha ha, how wrong they were.

I've never pre-approved my comments like some bloggers have to and for sure I'm not going to start now. As a cautionary measure I did enable image verification but it shouldn't be a problem for my human visitors ...

Posted by Piniyini

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Sat 12th Jan 08 01:40:01 AM 1 Sobi: Congratulations! ha
Sun 13th Jan 08 09:42:33 PM 2 Marigold: Yeah I got my first ever too a few days ago and it WAS somewhat flattering. Kind of made me feel like I was finally on the radar and like you, my template is personally coded too; I don't have the blogspot one. It's not as complicated as yours but it's not so easy to spam. Me think.
ANyway. Congrats.
Sun 13th Jan 08 10:41:27 PM 3 No One: Pini...sub changa hay...hope your ok...hope you got a girl...haha...peace...later
Wed 16th Jan 08 11:26:11 AM 4 Cherie: Should i say...er...Congrats...lemme bring out the champagne....:$

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