I seem to be having some unexplained mail server problems today, that is either delaying delivery or not delivering emails at all. So don’t expect me to be too responsive to email today.
Also, for those of you complaining in the comment threads about comment spam… shut up. I occasionally get waves of comment spam that come in faster than I can delete them, and my cranky old copy of WordPress just can’t defend itself. I need to spend some time upgrading to a new version to deal with this problem, but in the meanwhile, I’ll delete the spam when I get to it.
Are the hundreds of “Roger Rabbit” posts a day the spam, or is it the ads for nude teens and viagra? Sometimes, I can tell which is worse.
Roger’s not Spam. . .but he could be ‘jugged hare’!
“Also, for those of you complaining in the comment threads about comment spam… shut up.”
And go away? Okay.
When you say spam do you mean the batshit crazy stuff that Janet S, PuddyButt, Mark the Cowardly Redneck, JCH, FlakeyKlake and their ilk post?
Just asking…
When I say spam, I’m talking about the automated bullshit that floods my comment threads from time to time.
And you know what “Lapsed Subscriber”, I decide to sleep in for one fucking day, and I wake up to find people like you bitching because I didn’t get up early to clean out the overnight comment spam. So if HA ain’t good enough for you, yeah, leave.
Jesus… doesn’t anybody think I like the spam?
Maybe I’ll just take the next couple days off from blogging and upgrade the system. And when I’m done, maybe I’ll require people to register to post comments. That should clear out the threads.
Hey, Goldy. Just a quick post to let you know that this blog is appreciated. You’ve worked like a trouper keeping this thing running over the last couple of months.
Don’t let a couple of unconsidered comments stop you. Your hard work is appreciated.
If you do decide to upgrade your system, that takes some $$$. I’ll help a bit by putting a few bucks in the tip jar. Everyone else around here should do the same, especially those folks that are complaining about the spam posts.
Thanks again.
Hi Goldy;
I used to work at a non-profit and we would get that crap in floods sometimes in excess of 2 to 3 hundred in a 15 minute period. So I feel your pain.
A registration would be fine, but another idea is one of those “type in the letters you see” setups. It won’t cut the spam from the “data entry at home” people, but it will cut the automated stuff.
Goldy I was trying to make a joke. I knew what you meant by spam. Perhaps you’re just a bit on the cranky side today? A few days off might be in order.
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Are the hundreds of “Roger Rabbit” posts a day the spam, or is it the ads for nude teens and viagra? Sometimes, I can tell which is worse. Commentby spammer-not— 11/10/06@ 10:58 am
Whatsamatter can’t take it, wuss? Another thin-skinned Repukian who can’t handle criticism? Reading the HA comment threads is a voluntary activity — or is this the community service the judge made you perform?
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Hardly anything gives me more pleasure than wingnuts complaining about the prolixity and vulgarity of my posts! Suck on my rabbit dick, traitors! For a good time, call 1-800-LICK-ROG.
Maybe I should give half of my staff the day off, too. They could use a post-election rest, and after all, it’s Veterans Day. (I’ll bet all the wingnuts forgot.)
The other half of my staff will continue posting the normal amount of Roger Rabbit trenchant observations on the dilapidated state of the GOP intelligentsia.
Despite this board’s spam difficulties, you don’t find comments here advocating terrorist attacks against the U.S. as a way to get a political advantage, like you do on the competing blog down the street.
“Congratulations Speaker Pelosi, now let the bombs fall where they may. My prediction: terror attack on domestic soil passenger aircraft within the next six months. Casualties in the 2-300 range. And, unfortunately, maybe that’s just what we need. It’s obvious people don’t remember what happened 5 years ago.
Posted by FullContactPolitics at November 8, 2006 10:52 AM”
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Commentby Goldy— 11/10/06@ 12:09 pm
“Maybe I’ll just take the next couple days off from blogging and upgrade the system. And when I’m done, maybe I’ll require people to register to post comments. That should clear out the threads.”
Great idea. Need some help?
Goldy,
Hey you’re doing a great job running this blog. Thanks. When you can clean out the spam, that’s great, when you can’t we just gloss over it.
Moses. . .of course we don’t think you like spam. :)
Seriously, thanks for what you do. You made a difference in this election.
Hey Goldy, make me an admin here. I’ll clean out the spam for you. All of the spam. Heh. Heh. Heh.
Roger@13
Yeah, I remember what happened five years ago. The Chimperor decided to use an attack on a building in New York as an excuse to start running the Constitution through a wood chipper.