Not that long ago I questioned how long it would be until I got comment spam on this blog. It didn’t take long for that to be answered; over the past day or two I’ve had 3 of them. Admittedly that’s not too many, but given this blog has only been running for two weeks that’s a pretty depressing start. How did they manage to find me so fast? I guess Google is useful to spammers too.
Moaning anside, it won’t affect anyone reading this blog since I’ll catch the spam comments at the moderation phase. But it’s yet more work I have to do to combat spam. I really am sick of it.
SIGH. Make that 4…
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