Today I received this:
“Hi there, i read your blog occasionally and i own a similar one and i was just curious if you get a lot of spam responses? If so how do you prevent it, any plugin or anything you can advise? I get so much lately it’s driving me insane so any support is very much appreciated.”
The commenter gave his name as “Ecig” and that “similar” blog is an e-cigarette advertising website. His comment about how irritating spam is is spam itself, one of the nearly 536,000 such comments that I have had to review individually since launching Ethics Alarms.|
A dishonest fake comment, purporting to complain about spam while constituting spam, sent to a blog about ethics.
Nice.
Ethics Alarms 
WELL, IF THIS ISN’T SPAM, i DON’T KNOW WHAT IS.
Ho ho ho! I been turned down by Natural News.
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On 8/8/2013 11:54 AM, fattymoon@comcast.net wrote:
Name: Jeffrey Field Email: fattymoon@comcast.net Requested Pen Name: Fatty Moon Requested Username: fattymoon Agreed to Terms: Yes Brief Statement: Blog topics would include organic gardening (herbs and veggies), chaos magic, hypnosis, spellcrafting, activism, veganism, motorcycling, chess, original poetry, NDEs and whatever else catches my eye. See latest poem here – http://fattymoon.wordpress.com/2013/06/24/three-pronged-pitchfork-for-the-revolution/ Teachers’ Lounge, 2004-2011, my longest running blog (still standing though vacant), was via Typepad. Originally crafted as a teacher resource blog, it morphed into a post-about-anything-that interested-me blog. See it here – http://consilience.typepad.com/ Here’s an example of my non-fiction writing… http://consilience.typepad.com/teachers_lounge/2007/03/walter_reed_sig.html I continued blogging via Posterous until they closed down shop. Interested in getting people to WAKE UP. Pax, Jeffrey Field Submitted: 8/8/2013 1:54:20 PM CST.
Wait just a goddang minute. I have been drinking AND I have no freaking idea why I posted the above comment. Please delete and forgive this old sinner.
The lowercase “i” in the caps-locked sentence (from hitting shift-I with caps on was a dead giveaway… 😀
Cannot help but think of this:
I just finished earning untold thousand$ after mere minutes on the internet and seek to assist others to do the same.
So, if you’re not going to help this guy, would you be so kind as to lend me some assistance?
What’s this all about?
I’m just waiting for Jack to start posting “Get out of ethics dilemmas with this one weird trick…”
Don’t think I’m not considering it…
Love it! The idea of the “one weird trick” ad, I mean. [laughing]
Just this morning, I found a statement that I think tops the one you cite, for hypocrisy – or maybe, it’s just a topper for irony. (By the way, Jack, I did NOT wake up feeling ironic today.)
News comes from Missouri, of a rodeo clown who wore an Obama mask. While the clown stood in the arena wearing the mask, the announcer evidently asked the crowd something to incite, like, “Would you like to see Obama run over by a bull?”
There is uproar over that conduct at the rodeo, naturally. But what someone was quoted as saying, at the end of the article, had me laughing my conditioned-to-suppress-sensitivity-to-offensiveness stomach sore – a double-whammy, as it were:
“If an old country boy picks up on something like that, imagine what a person of color would think.”
(“…picks up on something like that” meaning, discerns the offensiveness of the whole stunt) I am a terrible storyteller.
No, I stand corrected—you woke up confused today. What in the world is hypocritical about saying that a white country boy is a good bet to be less sensitive to the implied disrespect to this black President than a black individual, whom the stats say is 98% likely to worship Obama? That the sentence is stereotyping? Baloney. It is making the correct point that if everybody was offended, this isn’t a case of race-baiting or political correctness, it is objectively in bad taste. And so it was.
If you think that’s more hypocritical than sending spam under the guise of a comment complaining about spam, you need a sdefintion adjustment.
Yes, correcting now: You woke up insensitive and pugnacious. So there.
It’s a bigot saying, “I’m bigoted, but I know my bigotry when I see it, ’cause I’ve got empathy for them folks I’s bigoted against. We all know our place.” We laugh about different things – never mind – forget it.
And there isn’t even a full moon.