If you're a regular reader, you might occasionally see a strange comment linking to a questionable site. These are spam postings that Blogger (owned by Google) usually removes before anyone sees them. When they do sneak though, I remove them manually. There are many more you never see because Blogger catches them.
But for some reason, Cialis, Viagra, and gobbledygook spam makes it through, and they are more often than not posted as comments to the very same blog entry.
Stuff like this, for example, continually shows up at γνῶθι σεαυτόν (Greek for "know thyself").
I can't imagine anyone is making money posting spam here. By most social standards, traffic is a trickle. And since they are posting to the same article over and over, all I can think of is someone is purposely trying to annoy me until Blogger catches up to them.
If it gets too bad, I'll turn off anonymous comments, but for now, it's just an annoying little game of whack-a-mole.
(If you see one, don't click on it. It only encourages them and you don't know where that link's been.)
[2013-02-14]
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Protecting Yourself with Google Alerts.
Some time back, when I started this blog and reproduced some of my own published fiction, I set up some Google alerts that would let me know if someone else had posted the same strings of words elsewhere. I didn't enter entire stories into my alerts, of course, just snippets that were especially hard to change without seriously damaging them.
There are companies that do this for you, but the problem is, once you find a plagiarist, if they don't desist, you have to pay a lawyer to scare them. Large companies like the one I work for pay a lot of money for both.
There are entire industries built around protecting ourselves from what people might do. I suppose because we know that if they're given the chance, they will.
[2012-02-29]
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