At least the old comment spam I have been inundated with for the last three years was usually complimentary, if vague and dumb. “Awesome revue! I will return to this weblog in the future, you can be assured of that!” Usually such a rave is attached to a post that is neither remarkable nor “a revue,” and the fact that 16 commenters, some with names like Britney Spears Nude, have exactly the same opinion usually raises suspicions, but hey, a compliment is a compliment. I feel bad sending such nice, appreciative readers to the spam bin with all the lista de email, but I do. (From today’s batch, this intriguing entry from “Graig”: “ierwa ciężkie spojrzenie. – Mówiłeś trochę? – spytał nerwowo. Nieewentualne, żeby nieco wiedział, pomyślał. Ale po co zaanonsował a figę owe? Czyżby? Arnold nie pył złych polityki. Po pro.” Who knows what hidden wisdom is in this missive? And who is “Arnold’? It’s driving me mad!)
The latest trend, however, is to send nasty spam, on the theory , I suppose, that spam-blockers are set for fawning, and insults might slip through. I’ve received various forms of this comment in the last couple of weeks…
“The next time I read a blog, I hope that it doesnt disappoint me as significantly as this 1. I mean, I know it was my choice to read, but I basically thought youd have something fascinating to say. All I hear is often a bunch of whining about some thing that you simply could fix in case you werent too busy searching for attention.”
Again, this comment was attached to a completely inappropriate post for that reaction, in this case, my expression of amusement at the story, later shown to be a hoax, about a naked 500 lb. man sitting on the son of Fred Phelps, of Westboro Baptist Church infamy. With all the genuinely whiny posts I have, you would think “Gesescuro” could find one (excuse me, “1”) of them, but never mind that: isn’t spamming my site and and making me waste my time screening hundreds of them every day (so a genuine comment isn’t inadvertently lost) enough? Now I have to put up with insulting spam too?
Life is unfair, and the internet is worse.
Now that’s whining, Gesescuro.
Ethics Alarms 
The good news is, if you’re feeling depressed over these critical spam comments, their names have handy links to Canadian pharmacies so that you can seek treatment.
Good advice!
Great quip Jack B. I have been enjoying your avatar since first seeing it, even though I am not sure what, exactly, to make of it. Does it relate in any way to some concept of “The Banzai Republic of Texas?”
Thanks for noticing my avatar, Eeyoure. Yeah, it’s just a goof graphic I made. Back in the 80s, all the Heavy Metal kids wore Kamikaze flag t-shirts with Union Jack bandanas on their wrists. With this graphic, I can still be a Heavy Metal kid and be loyal to my home state.
Word Press needs to have a spam screen.
Oh, it has one–a good one, too. But I still have to look at every damn one of them, because every now and then one of you guys gets spammed, usually because you included a link. 19 more in the bin now…
Hmmm…so in the future, if we mean to share a link, would it be most helpful to you if we copy and paste addresses, but then “chop” them, so that they remain as text without a hyperlink, and then add our own “dot com” or “dot org” etc. to the line of text, leaving it to readers to re-construct a full address and do their own copy-and-paste?
I’ve found that one link will go through, but multiple links will cause posts to be held.