Most of my comment spam, which admittedly is pretty small all things considered, comes from the Philippines. Its pretty easy to spot, usually it happens on an older post, there'll be link to a commercial website and a comment along the line of "Thanks for the excellent post. It gives me something to think about."
As soon as I find one, I mark it as Spam, then go to my Statcounter to collect the IP address. Like I said it is almost always from an IP address in the Philippines, although recently one came from Cairo Egypt. Then I block the IP address from commenting. They have hundreds, so at most blocking each IP address just slows them down, and gives me a small feeling of satisfaction.
This morning something different happened. It appears as though one of the people employed to leave the spam actually enjoys the blog. I had a comment on an old post, then did my usual thing, blocked and deleted. But the IP address keeps returning, going back through the archives and reading page after page of the blog, at last count over sixty page views.
I suspect there is someone occasionally looking over their shoulder, as there were occasional gaps in time between page views. So whoever you are two things… 1) Please stop leaving spam, I know it's your job and everything, but if there is one thing that gets me seething in hate its these attempts to hijack my stuff for someone else's gain. And 2) Welcome. Really, its great to have you have a look around here. I hope you're enjoying reading about this tiny life. Make yourself at home, and if you get one of those unblocked IP addresses, leave a legitimate comment, one without a commercial link, one telling me what you think about my Arctic home. Good to have you on board.
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BRAVO!
Thanks.