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If I Didn’t Know Better…

If I didn’t know better, I would think that my site is the most popular blog on the Net. After all, how many blogs get 450+ comments per day? Or even better, 450+ comments between the time I go to bed and the time I wake up? Well mine does.

Unfortunately, I do know better. Of the 450 comments that have been posted each of the last two nights, 449 of them have been by a spammer who is trying to drive traffic to his porn sites. So I guess my site is only exceedingly popular with scum like that. Fortunately no one has spammed the forums yet – only the “old fashioned” commenting system. I really do need to disable that…

And speaking of spam, someone just figured out that there are 600,426,974,379,824,381,952 ways to spell viagra.


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