Evil Spammers Begone! ... (Evil Housesdust too)

[wyld_dandelyon]

To my friends here:

In general, I love it if people visit my old posts and leave comments--real ones, anyway.

If anyone sees a post they love and finds comments disabled, it's because the spammers decided it was a good place to leave lots of comments for me to delete. I have better things to do with my time--so if you want to comment on one of those entries, send a message or comment here or something, ok?

Thanks!

To the evil spammers: I'm not going to unscreen your mis-spelled advertisements and phishing attempts, so stop wasting my time (and yours)!

Now, back to house cleaning...

Deleting spam comments is NOT a satisfactory break from OMG-it's-almost-winter-heating-season cleaning.

Comments

[zeeth_kyrah]

It's "SEO" stuff. The more comments and links that refer to their site, the higher that site's rank in Google and other search engines.

[mount-oregano.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Siege. I get it now. And I shall foil their evil plot and curse them to sink to the depths of SEO hell with greater purpose than ever.

[wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com]

Ah, so deleting them (which I do) does make a difference.

But that does explain why they pick old posts instead of new ones. They hope I'm not watching.