The Splogbots finally found the ‘crawl\u2014 I got a few dozen link-farm comments (“MsPoOE Your blog is great. Articles is interesting!”) scattered throughout the archives in just a couple of hours. So with great regret, I’ve imposed that Turing test option on potential commenters. Sorry. If anyone can suggest a less onerous way of keeping out the bogus stuff I’d be happy to consider it.<\/p>\n
Bye the bye, I wonder why I would so gladly, and without any compunctions whatever, slowly torture to death whatever lowlife cocksucker is responsible for generating these things. Seriously. If there was a button I could push that would result in said spammer being lowered slowly into a vat of nitric acid, along with all his\/her immediate relatives, I would push it without hesitation. And yet, spam and splog are really such minor inconveniences in the grand scheme of things. Hit delete. Define a new filter (although that’s often more of a pain in the ass than it’s worth \u2014 especially when you refuse to abandon Eudora until Thunderbird gets off its ass and supports tabs). I encounter more pervasive advertising every time I walk down Yonge Street, every time I turn on the TV. I’m a biologist; I more than anyone should recognize the venerability of the parasite niche. So why do I (or, be honest: why do we<\/i>) reserve such homicidal fury for the spammers?<\/p>\n
I’m thinking, it’s because we’ve internalized our hard drives as home<\/i>. These fuckers aren’t putting up billboards over the expressway \u2014 they’re coming into our fucking living rooms<\/i>, they’re papering their crude and off-putting crap all over the inside of our exocrania<\/i>. This becomes more than irritant; this becomes a violation<\/i>, and it arouses a visceral desire to inflict extreme, protracted, and ultimately fatal agony on the bastards. This is brain invasion<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Or is it just me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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