I seem to be signed up for notifications of additional comments to an old post on The Blog Herald. Two notifications in a row just arrived in my inbox and they were both for spam comments. It really pisses me off. Blogs create the opportunity for conversations that could never have happened a generation ago. There’s always someone with an angle who forces you to require registration or set up some other barrier to communication. I don’t mind trolls. Trolls are just part of the landscape, but the spam thing just makes my head explode.

Blogsome must have done something different because it’s calmed down here a lot lately, which is good. I was getting a dozen or so a day for a short period there. Blogger is doing it with word verification, but the problem with that is that the distorted letters that they use are sometimes difficult to read. I don’t mind typing in the letters that I see, but I don’t want to have to sit and think about what those letters are. Anyway, just a good morning “Boo, hiss” to comment spammers.