what’s pissing me off about you

Okay, not you, the person reading this message per say. Just some of you.

• In the past couple of months, I’ve had a comments from spammers. At first it was a trickle, an insurance site here, a girl-on-horse website there. Lately though, the spammers commenting on my weblog have gone way up, and I’ve had to spend a good twenty minutes a day manually removing ads for everything from herbal breast enhancements to insurance to the states of Texas and Nevada. (This might have to do with the fact that this weblog has now been linked off of Earthlink’s blogger page.)

• The final straw is when one commenter wrote one-sentence comments on ten of my most recent posts, like “oh yes that is funny” or “you are right i see that a lot” and left their website. The website in question? A “viagra magazine.”

• Now, I make no regular income off this weblog. Running this weblog actually costs me money, $30 a month, roughly $360 a year. (Yes, I know I could probably pay less money for a web host. Chalk it up to having no time and not wanting to go thorugh the effort.) But when someone actually has the nerve to try to make a buck off my work, and to not even get a chunk of it? Oh, hell no.

Play nice in the comments, kids. Otherwise there might not be a weblog anymore for the spammers to post on.