So, Gentle Reader, if you had been perusing this Tohu Bohu between, say, five and ten this morning (EDT), you might have seen some blogspam. Perhaps. Probably not.\n
Three comments were left, each one consisting of a word hyperlinked to what Your Humble Blogger assumes is a pay-porn site. I deleted them without checking it out, I’m afraid. If any of y’all are having difficulty finding pay-porn, well, you can let me know, and I’ll see if I can find the link.\n
Anyway, what I thought was odd was that the three notes to which the comments were attached were from eleven weeks ago. They weren’t even particularly popular threads; one had nine comments before the spam, but the others had only two. None of them had been active recently, either. It just seems ... so ... worthless.\n
I mean, if you figure that only one or two people out of a hundred would have clicked the link anyway, and that of those who did, presumably only a few would have actually paid for the porn, and that there are only maybe twenty people who read the site anyway, and that of those twenty pretty much nobody goes back and checks two-month-old comments, then the fact that this whole business is pretty much cost-free is countered by the fact that it’s pretty much revenue-free as well. In fact, the only person who would have been at all likely to have even seen<\/I> the links would be Your Humble Blogger, who of course would be the person most likely to be angered by them, and the person least likely to be in the mood to pay somebody for porn. Or pr0n. I mean, I know people are stupid about sex, but the percentage of people who are turned on by unsolicited advertisements on their blogs has got to be pretty darned low.\n
As it happens, I’m not angry, I’m just perplexed. I mean, was there a meeting between the guy who did the robot code and the guy who runs the pay-porn site, where this whole advertising plan was discussed in detail? Step one: one word hyperlinks in old comments pages of miniscule blogs. ... Step Three: Satisfied paying customers!\n
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-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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