Jul 24
Why Would a Christian Dating Site Spam My Blog?
I’ve been quietly battling a surge in spam behind the scenes here at Patrick’s Place. Many of the spam comments (that you never see because of two layers of comment moderation) come from the same email address, which I am working on blocking completely.
The target URL of about half of them lately has been a dating site for Christians. I’m not going to say which one, of course, because that’s what the spammers want. No dice.
Ironically, one of the spam comments said something about gay dating, and the link was to the same site. That’s going a long way to make a point.
The actual site, in case you were suddenly wondering, in no way deals with anything gay…which is a little odd when you think about it: there are gay Christians in the world.
If I may borrow that all-too-familiar phrase, what would Jesus do when it comes to spam? I don’t think he’d be a spammer: he’d be a commenter who’d say who he was and what he wanted without wasting time sending thousands of little messages that point to someone else’s site. And I suspect if Christ had his own blog, he’d have a spam filter like you couldn’t imagine.
UPDATE: I’m closing comments on this particular post, because other dating sites keep leaving spam comments and I’m tired of dealing with them.
July 25th, 2008 at 9:06 am
Oh, the mental picture of Jesus’ spam filter… hee hee hee
THANKS!