As I am new to blogging (or at least to blog maintenance), I am having my first experience with the baneful phenomenon known as Comment Spam. It is strange. Spammers post fake comments that include links to their web sites, selling the usual pharmaceuticals and other seedy merch. They want readers or, more important, search engines to follow the links.

I don’t really understand it. It doesn’t work, for various reasons. It prevents me from allowing unfiltered comments, but otherwise it’s not even that much of a nuisance, because automated defenses have become available. Yet it seems so evil somehow—a low-grade, pointless sort of evil.

Looking for the silver lining in this cloud, I recently checked out a few of my intercepted comments. The spammers seem to have evolved a peculiar species of flattery: generic and illiterate and inadvertently hilarious. Maybe this is a form of meme, surviving obsequiously. Here are some examples:

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I can’t argue any of your ideas. You should write more often!

Golly, thanks! I’ll try.