The spectre of anonymity
As a long-time subscriber to John Gabriel’s Greater Internet Dickwad Theory…
…I foolishly allowed this blog to get off the ground with barely any limits on viewer comments other than moderating all comments before they’re allowed to go live on the site.
Not long after I started the site and allowed search engines to crawl it, I began to get spambots trying to fill the comments of one particular post with utter gibberish. Interestingly, the only post to get spammed was my article on Astana being denied a Tour de France bid. A few of those spambot comments had usernames with Cyrillic characters. With the mention of Astana and Cyrillic lettering, I would assume Russian spambots are cruising my site.
But, speculation aside, in order not to have to moderate multitudes of spam comments every day, I now require that anyone wishing to comment register on the site. I’m sorry to have to do this, but it will also prevent other abuses of comments, like the aforementioned Dickwads trolling my more inflammatory posts.
So, for those of you beyond my family and friends (should you actually exist) who read my little opinion and newsbites, I apologize for the minor inconvenience, but I don’t tolerate bad behavior on any sites or forums under my care.
Now back to your regularly scheduled rants…
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