I received my first comment on my first post… And it was spam. It’s rather amusing and depressing at the same time that a blog with no readership whatsoever is receiving comment spam advertising drugs. Who would trust a spam-drug vendor in the first place?
I think this whole advertising thing has gotten way out of hand, becoming the Ouroboros of our economy and culture — Never ending, feeding on itself, always trying to out-advertise the next guy, advertising becoming a beginning and end unto itself. I really wish there were some places in this culture in which you could exist without being constantly exposed to, and thus vigilant against, crass advertising.
Second comment!
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Uh, well, at least it’s not spam.
I get about 50,000 trackback spams per day at the blogs I manage (mu.nu). I had to write my own custom spam filter just to keep the server from melting.