Friday, November 20, 2009

Comments on this blog are moderated.

This is not new info to most people, or should not be.

Idiots do not have free rein, unless they do the work to start their own blogs.

Beyond that, an offensive practice has shown up that other bloggers might or might not have encountered: Some comment is anonymously added to an old post, on the off chance the post is hit by some innocent search, and the comments considered.

Specifically, this:

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Some unprincipled person wants to link people to what might be malware, as much as a legitimate download site. I don't need that. Readers don't. I ask the offender to stop. However, I presume it is some robot spider going out and poisoning Blogger blogs that way, where comments are not moderated.

I urge all Blogger users to moderate comments if for no other reason than to block commercial abusers of this kind from their highly offensive conduct. It is unprincipled and unwanted.