The first wave of comment spam was actually mildly amusing, but in past weeks it has just become incredibly tiresome. The top two types of content in the comment spam left on my blog are various generic and brand-name drugs and alluring words related to porn. I know there are ways to avoid having to even SEE this trash, but for now I’m continuing to moderate comments and remove it myself, at arm’s length and with my nose pinched.
So I’m encouraged to see in this Economist article that social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook are overtaking pornographic sites in popularity. We can only hope that will spill over to the spam world, and we’ll see the volume and stench of spam start to decrease. A girl can hope, anyway.
