I apologize for not having time to write more often. It is hard to do so when I spend most of my time deleting spam comments.<\/p>\n
If you have never been an administrator for a web site \u2013 even as small as this one is – you\u2019d be amazed at the volume and wide range of comments being offered to my articles.<\/p>\n
Some just go for the sell. They offer their products, plain and simple. I like those honest and direct approaches. I see them for what they are, and can delete them without a second thought.<\/p>\n
Others go for flattery. They tell me how much they admire my work, and want to know if I write professionally (Really? You liked \u201cWould you like to take a survey?<\/a>\u201d that much?!). They hope that I will continue expounding on the topic (especially popular is \u201cDear Senator (hic) yew r stup ud sissy\u2026 (hic)<\/a>\u201d), asking me to continue writing additional articles about it, and they promise to bookmark my page. I can usually spot when they are fake, but occasionally they seem pretty sincere. A few times, I have actually went to check them out to see if they are really linking to me. One tax attorney said he would blogroll me on his site, but I could not find the link when I went there. However, an automotive website linked to a new post of mine within a couple minutes after it appeared, and they did indeed have a link back to my site. Our topics were completely unrelated, and as I looked further, I found that they linked to just about every other WordPress<\/a> powered site in the world-wide-web too. Then my ego was deflated again. Sure that they were just looking for a \u201cping-back\u201d I deleted their comments too.<\/p>\n The latest effort though is to tell me jokes. So far, the jokes have been clean and funny.<\/p>\n Where does a one-armed man shop? At a second hand store.<\/p>\n What do you call a bunch of dancing pebbles? The \u201cRock\u201dettes.<\/p>\n Who is Dracula\u2019s favorite person on the baseball team? The bat boy!<\/p>\n What do you call a bee born in May? A Maybe.<\/p>\n What did Adam say on the day before Christmas? It’s Christmas, Eve!<\/p>\n What do you get if you cross a setter and a pointer? A pointsetter.<\/p>\n When a girl slips on the ice, why can\u2019t her brother help her up? Because he can\u2019t be a brother and assist her too.<\/p>\n Why do Vampire have to brush their teeth? Because they have Bat-Breath.<\/p>\n There \u2013 now I suspect that the spam bots are looking for those jokes to be posted, and when they see them, they will send more spam. (So I hope you enjoyed them, because I just created more work for me)<\/p>\n Anyway, that is just one interesting aspect from behind the scenes of a web site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you have never been an administrator for a web site \u2013 even as small as this one is – you\u2019d be amazed at the volume and wide range of comments being offered to my articles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[22,83],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ryans-posts","tag-computers","tag-experience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}