Logged onto my computer this morning and strolled over to the email account where I get these sweet little emails saying someone has commented on my poor, forlorn blog. My eyes about popped out of my head when I saw that there were TWELVE new comments on various posts.
Then I opened the first email and it was gobble-de-garbage. Comment spam. YUCK!
How on earth did that happen? I've had this blog for four years now and was very careful to ensure that posters couldn't be anonymous when I did the comment settings. I also added word verification to the mix in an attempt to keep the bots out.
Looks like the bots have gotten smarter. It's obvious these are bot posts. All twelve happened within a 2-3 minute span. They all have the same "poster id" and all have the same text (if you can call it that).
There was no way I was keeping that stuff on my blog, even if the comments were only on much older posts. Who knows what search engine link might bring some otherwise interested person to a particular post? So I've just finished scrolling through my blog and deleting them. How totally irritating!
What's even more irritating, sort of, is that I'm now requiring that posts be moderated before they hit the screen. Not that I get that many posts in any given day, or week or month, for that matter.
Why can't these people just leave us alone? We weren't bothering them, were we?
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Oh I so agree. ANd btw, I found you by searching profiles for pastors. :)
and what denom do you preach in?
Presbyterian.
And, at first glance, I thought you wrote "what DEMON do you preach in?". *chuckle*
I've never been to a Presbyterian church. I'm Assemblies of God, but was Baptist when I was little. Also have experience with Methodism. Great-Grandmother was a Methodist and there was a female MEthodist Preacher at the churhc for a while. THe Executive PAstor at my church is a woman. SHe rocks :)
and our denom is organized like a presbytry.
I'd assume the demon's church was organized like a pig sty... lol :P
Pig sty or a garbage dump.
Didn't realize Assemblies of God had women pastors. That's really cool!
It has since its founding in 1914. :)
And my cousin who is old enough to be my aunt is a non-denom pastor. ANd email me....
YOu're an interseting lady... :)
I so understand the anticipation of getting commments and then that let down when it's junk. Aw..I feel your pain. In any event, I was just blog hopping and thought I'd stop and rest at your's for a spell. Very nice. While I'm here, you're free to come visit my blog...any time! And commenting is most welcomed!
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