Friday, June 5, 2026

Spam comments







Once upon a time, on an internet far, far away, the first thing I'd do every morning is go into my Comments section and delete on average 10-20 spam comments that had come in overnight while I was sleeping.

In those days boj got about 15,000 page views per day and thus had a far greater virtual surface to present than today, when I happily average 500 page views daily.

The thing is, bookofjoe1 (this is bookofjoe2 in case you hadn't noticed it in the URL) was formatted by me in such a way that the names of the 10 most recent commenters were prominently displayed in a column on the home page.

It offended me that longtime sidebar pals were displaced in favor of all manner of junky and stupidly named occupants, so I got them out of there ASAP.

Nowadays I get perhaps one spam comment a month, most recently this past Sunday on this post (top).

The great thing is that with the current layout, commenters aren't identified on the home page and you have to click the Comments link at the bottom of a post to see them.

Thus, I don't bother deleting them because prolly only a couple people on the planet other than the spammers will do so.

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