Comments! Comments! Comments!
At the time of this writing, there are 167 comments on this blog. One hundred sixty-seven. Spread over 55 posts, that’s over 3 per post. I had no idea I was so popular. However, I closer look at the statistics reveals the truth we suspected all along.
Although the average spread of the above comments would be three per post, the article “Clutter” has an astounding 162. All of it is spam. Why that article? It could be that at one time, it was in every single category this blog had to offer. Since then, I’ve added more, and I seem to have deleted any evidence of comments on that post from before the date of the expansion. Also of note, every damn spam is a trackback. I thought those would be a good idea, but they turned out oh so wrong. 99 of the Spams are for Tramadol (which word will probably cause this post to outstrip the other in spam comments), including “snorting tramadol” and “canine tramadol.”
Well, we only have five more comments to track down.
I have one super-spam trackback on “Momentous Day in History.”
There is a spam trackback on “The Primaries Begin” that at least had a small amout of effort put into it. Here’s the originating site, if you want to see it. Note that what generated the spam was a short aside about Paris Hilton.
The trackback on the page “This is odd…” came from this very site.
And, finally, behold! Two legitimate comments! From my good friend Lauren.
And, as I hit the “publish” button, eight more useless comments will be created as trackbacks from this site. I think I’m going to turn them off.
I have another registered user, Alexis_Yost, who registered on 23-September-2007 and has yet to post a comment.
[ETA: Turned off trackbacks, and purged the hell out of comments!]