Slammed with Spam

Yesterday and today, my new wesbite / blog (which is currently under construction and not ready for public consumption) got slammed with comments on a number of older posts. Most of them are spam. How can I tell? Well, people calling me by the wrong name is the first giveaway given that my actual name is on my website. Secondly, people posted writing comments to SQL posts and SQL comments to writing posts. Which tells me someone did a tag/keyword search to make me believe these comments were genuine. And then you get the generic “Your blog is great” comments with links to URLs.

I’m going to be deleting the majority of these comments. If you are a real person, and your comment was a sincere comment, I’ll try to make sure your comment stays, but it may be a few days before you see yourself on my posts. If you don’t see your post after then, I probably deleted it thinking it was spam and you have my apologies.

I’m a techie, folks. When going through my anonymous comments, I’m going to be erroring on the paranoid side. I don’t want my blog to be the place where people click on bad links to get to bad places and maybe even download nasty things on their computer by accident. So if you’re making a real post, watch your spelling and make the post relevant to the subject you’re responding to (not generic).