Allllllrighty then…. Fixed that. Stupid cut-and-paste-not-paying-attention thing.

Screening comments on LJ helps a lot of people, of course, but I’ve certainly heard a few times of people getting spammed there. I hear too that Six Apart are doing their best to combat spam on the backend side of things. They have their own list of plugins for MT users.

But, yeah, it’s a bigger issue out here in the cold, cold blogosphere… where the cold wind blows coldly upon you like a ghost and scatters sparks from your feeble little fire, and the coyotes howl beneath the dry, curved bone of the desolate moon; and the stranger may be an okay fella just like you or he could be a spammer — heeled ‘n’ fittin’ to spam you before you can reach for your six-shooter and plug him between his vicious, ugly, soulless, beady little eyes. How many a widow or widower has cradled a grip of flowers or a hat graveside, recountin’ the lynchin’ to the dearly departed and makin’ an oath not to see it happen ever again to no poor innocent? I shudder to think about it, ma’am; I surely do shudder.

At any rate, this whole “comment spam” thing is new to me, and that absolutely sucks! (Judging by your previous entry, I’m thinking you feel the same way.) I guess LJ has some way of blocking that? Anyway, it seems it’s at least been a learning experience for you, which is all we can ask from life, I suppose.