To the spammers: cease.

Lately, a clan of pathetic spammers has been leaving comments on my blog entries. The comments usually are something like this:

"Hey, cool blog. Keep it up! By the way, you should try this great new product X! It is amazing! You'll thank me later." (attached link to their site)

Man o' man, I really wish they'd stop. It is really so tiresome. I can't believe they waste their time waiting to get notifications that I have posted something new just so they can log in and leave their worthless plug for whatever thing they are peddling. My operating procedure as of late has been to just erase the comments spammers leave. However, that means the comments button is also turned off for the regular, gold-star readers. In effect, the spammers are shortchanging my readers out of their opportunity to voice their opinions. It's a sad state of affairs!

Can these people get a life and do something CREATIVE?? For example, use an ounce of initiative and get your web site's key terms to register in search engines like Google or Yahoo. Then your potential customers will come to YOU. Make your approach self-sufficient, not predatory. Do something that will actually SELL something! The crazy thing about this whole situation is that hardly ANY people read this blog (maybe 5-10 people?). I have no idea why spammers would spend so much effort trying to market to readers of my site. I guess it comes back to their ability to be effective. Alas, they are quite the opposite of effective.

So all you spammers, please give this blog a break - and do not visit the sites of my friends linked down below, either. They dislike your attention, too.

But good luck out there in the meantime. I hope you are making enough to pay your rent and stuff.