Pet Peeves: Comment Porn
I really, really, really love it when readers take time to leave a comment here at Shout. I get all excited and twirl around in my office chair and do a little happy dance. When it’s another blogger who’s been generous enough to shout back, I’ll click through to his or her site, browse around and return the favor.
There seems to be a blogging drought over the holiday weekend, so I added three more moves to my happy dance when someone new left a comment yesterday. Then, I fired up my mouse and clicked with wild abandon over to the person’s blog. But it wasn’t a blog.
With one click I was face-to-ass with some hardcore porn. Wait, I thought, there must be a mistake. People don’t leave a comment without first spending some time to look around. Mr. Long John and Betty Big Boobs apparently didn’t take the time to discover we don’t actually talk about sex here, we just use lots of inappropriate innuendo, and certainly they must have realized THAT isn’t the type of photography I was talking about last week when I asked for your bribery help.
I panicked a bit thinking of someone like FiveFlowerMom visiting Shout and clicking through the comment link. There she’d sit, surrounded by her adorable five flowers, gasping for air as she’s overtaken by a parental heart attack. To save her and other mothers with young children peeping over their shoulders while they browse, I deleted the comment.
I’d like to remind spammers that Shout is rated PG 13, and really you should abide by the rules. You never know … one day I could become Queen of the Internet and I promise my first crown-wearing task will be to hunt y’all down and disconnect you. If you truly believe you have something worthy of me eyes and time, you don’t have to spam my blog, just do what all the Viagra pimps do…send me an email.
Been there several times…fortunately my spam filter works and I am able to delete before the horrid skin show pops up on my monitor. I think we are receiving random messages from email blasts – they have fun names like Altr and Navia. I like your Ratings system idea – I have even been on Mommy Blogs where the language seems highly uncalled for. I would much rather read clever writing, like yours, than someone who thinks using the F-word makes them seem too cool for words!
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things are slow this weekend aren’t they? glad it’s not just me. i’ve gotten one or two of those spam comments. very weird. luckily they are the exception not the rule.
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Thanks for thinking of me and my five flowers! I also have to agree with Sports Mom’s comment above regarding using the F-word and other language sooo much, I would much rather have witty writing like yours!
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I haven’t had this problem. I seem be on some nutty Christian spam cycle that suggests I might as well jump off a bridge since I am going straight to hell anyway. The comments are really long.
I think it’s because I say a*s so many times on my blog.
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Oh no they di’int!!! Fortunately I haven’t had that problem- you should see some of the searches that Google sends me, though. Pervies.
I’m careful when leaving a comment- if they read me regularly and leave comments, I do the same but I try and tone it down a notch if they don’t cuss on their blog- it’s just a matter of respect. Sadly, I do swear on mine, but you’ll NEVAH read the f word on mine- the inlaws, you know.
No porn on my blog! I don’t write anything I wouldn’t want my mother-in-law to read. Because she does read my blog.
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Oh man! I can’t imagine clicking through to that! I haven’t had any spammers yet, and I hope I don’t get any. Thank goodness for the delete option, right?
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Mrs. G., I’ll be quite pleased to meet you at the gates of hell.
On foul language, I agree with everyone who said they’d rather not read a lot of cursing. In my humble opinion, the big ole F word should be saved for very, very special occasions, otherwise it completely loses its impact.
Hi there. I’m none too keen on too much foul language, either. However, it really doesn’t upset me too much if it is used appropriately and sparingly. When is it appropriate? Good question. I think it is appropriate, perhaps, when all other alternatives have been exhausted and instead of saying nothing at all, I am compelled to to explicate. Like when I drop a vacuum cleaner on my bare big toe. It’s truly amazing how quickly all other alternative expressions are used up and in fact vanish entirely when something like that happens.
Do I feel an overwhelming need to write using those sorts of words? Rarely, and not on someone else’s website/blog, do I find it necessary.
There is my two cents. I hope it was worth at least that much.
Pax,
Nelson
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Wow! I’ve never had anything like that. I try pretty hard to keep my blog neutral and family friendly, but what a horrible moment for you, linking to that!
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When I left my email on my previous blog, I had porn spam sent to me like I was so desperate to see somebody’s c*cks or pu*sy! So, I removed the email addy from my blog.
Here I am writing about my frustrations and pain and here I get spamed!! grrrr!!!!
ps I am trying to cut down on the cursing, tho.
Hmmm…infertility made me swear like a sailor!
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Brandygirl: I hear you. Infertility made me swear like a sailor too, while jumping up and down and throwing a few hundred pee sticks across the floor. Sometimes, the F word was the only thing that helped me breath!
Cross my fingers, I’ve been lucky so far. I’ve gotten a comment or two from spammers, but they haven’t been icky, more like “Make Money while blogging” type sites. They’ll leave a comment where it is clear that English is their 2nd language and sounds like a spam email. Something like, “Love you blog. Looks like your site is humor. Check out my mine at http://www.some-lame-ass-site.com”
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I know what you mean about trying to keep everything family friendly. I once had a comment that sent me to teenage girls peeing.. Like anyone wants to see that! YUCK! Seriously, people scare me.
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I’m an occasionally foul word using blogger.
But my Dirty Sanchez blog got some nasty, nasty spam. Thanks to the Busty Babes!! They love my blog apparently.
Oh and, here’s a wiki on the Dirty Sanchez – warning, it’s not safe for kids (or work!).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Sanchez_(sexual_act)
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Hi Tricia! Thanks for stopping by my blog. This isn’t comment porn either.
I have not yet been hit by spammers on my blog, although people pushing Viagra do love to email me. Gonna check out the rest of your site…
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Yikes!! I haven’t had that happen to me, but I have deleted one comment…it was the second one I ever received, and it gave me a bit of a panic attack-was I sure I wanted to do this blogging thing? It was this guy who didn’t speak English very well and told me something was beautiful (that part didn’t make sense) and that he would see me tomorrow and he left his #. Ugh.
Have a great week!
Steph
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