Comments I Won't Publish

I don't get much in the way of spam anymore, but sometimes ...  Well, you know. It can be amusing, sometimes annoying, and sometimes just idiotic.

• "Hey dudes, I'm heavily into shoes ..."
• Anything that starts with a URL
• Anything in pictographs, cuneiform, hieroglyphics, Sanskrit or Sumerian ... I'm an equal-opportunity deleter
• "Sometimes I've just got to have ..."
• "Meds ...." with multiple URLs
• Anyone asking me to provide a link to their sales site; I don't care if it's for purses in San Francisco, the U.S. Olympics team (yeah, right) or whatever
• "Visit us or die!" with a URL
• "This good post helped me with college assignment ..."
• "Great post! Wanna trade links?"

There are others*, and I'm sure you've all seen them. The shoes comment hit my spam folder several times a day, and then went away. Gee, I wonder why.

And the Olympics team? Seriously, have you looked at my site meter? I get 800 hits on a good day; if you need my traffic to make it, your troubles are WAY bigger than any hits I might send your way.




 
*I'm sure there are others - some are classics, in their own way - but I'm not going to take the time or energy to remember them now. I'll bet some good ones show up in comments, though.

A Comment About Comments

I've switched Blogger settings back to a pop-up window for comments, as a few folks have encountered issues with their browsers and/or settings. They've been unable to leave comments when replies were enabled.

For whatever reason, Blogger doesn't offer the "reply" option in the full-page or pop-up window settings; only when "embedded" is selected.

Hmmph. Anyway, that's the way it is, this snowy morning. Have a great day, and thanks for stopping by!

WordPress comments

About a month ago, WordPress - which had been recognizing my e-mail address as all the I.D. it needed - stopped allowing me to comment on those who blog there. It kept insisting that my e-mail was associated with some other account, and that I needed to log in first.

I would try, and still it claimed not to know me. For my friend Guffaw in Arizona, I would send comments via e-mail, and he had to cut-and-paste them into his Comments section. I didn't do that for anyone else.

I read several other bloggers making similarly annoyed remarks about it, so at least I had the satisfaction of knowing it wasn't just me.

This morning, I finally resurrected a five-generation-old password ... and WordPress' response was "Oh, it's YOU!" and allowed the comment through.

They need some serious overhaul, I'm thinking.

Comments I Won't Publish

Sometimes amusing, sometimes annoying, and sometimes just idiotic...

• "Hey dudes, I'm heavily into shoes ..."
• Anything that starts with a URL
• Anything in pictographs, cuneiform, hieroglyphics, Sanskrit or Sumerian ... I'm an equal-opportunity deleter of comments
  
• "Sometimes I've just got to have ..."
• "Meds ...." with multiple URLs
  
• Anyone asking me to provide a link to their sales site - I don't care if it's for purses in San Francisco, the U.S. Olympics team (yeah, right) or whatever
• "Visit us or die!" with a URL
• "This good post helped me with college assignment ..."
• "Great post! Wanna trade links?"
  

There are others*, and I'm sure you've all seen them. The shoes comment just started today, and I've already had to delete it twice.

And the Olympics team? Seriously, have you looked at my site meter? I get 90 hits on a good day - if you need my site to make it, your troubles are WAY bigger than any traffic I might send your way.

*I'm sure there are others - some are classics, in their own way - but I'm not going to take the time or energy to remember them now. I'll bet some good ones show up in comments, though.