This is a public service announcement.

If you own the spam bot that is slowing down my site, or the domain where this spam bot wants people to play texas hold-em or some other video poker game website … Please go somewhere else. I just deleted 200+ “comments” from my moderation cue because you spammers are too stupid to give up when the first 50 spammed comments don’t show up on the site. Update: I just deleted another 105 that never made it onto the pages. Don’t you feel stupid yet? Update: After a week’s vacation: 6 comments posted, 1 comment saved from moderation (thank you Thunderbird search-filters) ... 342 comments deleted. Ha ha ha!

I mean, for goodness sakes, surely by now you’ve figured out that just mentioning poker, or any other form of gambling, cigarretes, or any other form of drug, or any kind of link whatesoever is enough to send your comment to the queue for moderation. And furthermore, even a 4 year old child could handle the task of deciding whether these particular comments are legitimate comments or just junk spam.

If you can’t figure this out, I may have to take more obvious measures to make you stop wasting my time (yes, it’s annoying to have to click a button to delete comments, and besides, I have to click twice, because I have to click the link to go to my comment moderation page).