And now we have targetted spamming …
This is just so weird that I have to abandon my blogging stupor and write about this. Today, I saw three comments on this blog; a number beyond my imagination.
But all of them turned to be on one post: the rather spare review I had written sometime back of the His Dark Materials trilogy by Phillip Pullman. Given the content of the books I am not surprised that there is a campaign against them by the established church. And with a well publicized movie in the wings (and I heard of the books from the trailers shown before Spiderman III) a larger number of people are going to be exposed to it. Hence, the ongoing war to the movies and the books has shifted to the internet.
All that aside, clearly the comments on my post were spam. They all sounded the same, lacked a single coherently strung thought and were posted on the same day at very similar times. But the wondrous thing was narrowness of the spam attack or that the excellent Akismet spam catcher failed to catch it. To the casual reader, they might even look like genuine comments so pertinent are they to the theme of the post.
And suddenly, I shudder at the thought of a future where with considerable amount of my personal information on public domain I will be subjected these inane but outwardly pertinent messages.
Hey I wasn’t spam. And it really annoys me that these “devout” ‘religion inserted here’ are spamming your page, and talknig about things that are so not true, and probably making other “concerned” parents not want to watch the movie.
End of rant.
PS. I really enjoy reading your blogs.
I never said you were spam
But seriously, if you don’t want your kid to see whatever movie or book that you think might harm his moral compass don’t let him/her see it and raise him to be upright Christian/Hindu/Muslim or whatever. WTF does one have to go on this moral crusade all the time and do spamming about it. And that too on personal blogs !!!