Impressive. This blog has been operational for barely two weeks now, and already some slimeball scammer attempted to spam the comments area.

I’ve been wanting to explain why the comments area is moderated; that is, human approval is required before posted comments are world-viewable. I made this decision early-on in my research of blogs, having visited so many blogs that had older postings completely taken over by porn and pill spam comments. I swore any blog I operated was not going to have that garbage cluttering things up, and so even before deciding on WordPress for the underlying software, I knew whatever I used would require comment moderation.

But I had no idea the disgusting thieves would get here this fast. I suppose I should have realized that chickenboners who can’t make an honest living without attempting to steal other people’s resources would find us quickly, but I guess I was hoping there was still some honor on the Net.

The really depressing thing is there isn’t much I can do, other than firewall off the Israeli netblock where the scum resides (or at least the computer the scum was using), and report to the upstream. I’m serious about a take-no-prisoners attitude; if I get spammed from a provider, I’ll firewall off that provider until they agree to deal with the problem. In this case, it’s probably a hijacked computer (we’re back to that scum-sucking thief part), so I expect to see more as the days and weeks progress. The only good news is, it’s pretty unlikely you will have to see these disgusting advertisements. (If anyone cares, this one was for some phony pharmacy ready to sell sugar pills to any fool stupid enough to fall for their scam). It makes more work for me needing to approve the legitimate comments that are posted, but it’s well worth the effort if I can protect the blog, and you, from having to deal with scam advertisements like this. Besides, it has to be easier to approve legitimate posts than to run around after-the-fact trying to delete spam messages that were allowed into the blog.

It honestly amazes me how scum like this can survive…you’d think they’d forget how to breath, as brain-damaged as they clearly are.