spambots – Moe Lane

…And so passes authorizing trackbacks to MoeLane.com.

I resisted turning them off for the longest time: nostalgia, I suppose. I’ve been doing this for a while, and they used to be useful. Now they’re just an avenue for spambots to flood my Pending comments queue. Turning off that feature cleaned up that queue immensely.

My apologies to the legitimate sites who link here: I can’t pick and choose who gets trackbacks.

Moe Lane

PS: Yeah, I actually am kind of annoyed about it. Spambots are the single most annoying thing about site moderation; I hate having to change my operating methodology in order to counter them. It’s like doing so concedes that they’ve won, somehow.

Note to spammers trying to sell me DIABLO 3 GOLD.

I don’t specifically mind that you’re trying to hide your spam through the tactic of reprinting political commentary. I don’t specifically mind that you’ve mostly decided to make it look like Lefty political commentary, presumably on the assumption that that way people might not twig to the spelling, grammatical, and coherence errors right away. I don’t even specifically mind that you’re mining Occupier posts, presumably on the assumption that etc, etc, etc. But comparing the Palestinian situation to the Holocaust, with Israelis playing the part of the Nazis? Yeah, that I specifically mind. That kind of talk is just trash tactics and trash behavior that’s done by trash, and I’d think that even an email spammer would have his or her pride.

Shame on you people.