Here is an example of the kind of comment to which I was referring in my last post, received yesterday:
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Is this even English???
If this was actually written by a person, then they need to seriously upgrade their writing skills in English, but I am disinclined to believe that it was written by anything other than those so-called “article writing” software programs I previously mentioned. This kind of garbled drivel is increasingly stuffing both my pending comments and all of our inboxes, and it is an irritant at best, considering the amount of time it wastes.
This is right up there in my block with spammers who get affronted when I mark their messages as spam. I had one such person actually tell me that I was doing my readers a disservice by not allowing his (her? its?) spam comment through, despite it having nothing to do with any subject ever discussed on the blog in question. He even said he would keep sending it – which he did, but only for a couple of days, until he got bored and went off to annoy someone else.
I welcome real comments from real people, even when I don’t agree with them, but they must be polite, and have something to do with the subject at hand for me to approve them. I’ve already allowed a number of comments which had nothing to do with the blog but were at least inoffensive. I reserve the right not to be bothered by those without the courtesy to be nice to others, and I will not approve rude comments or those containing profanity. I am hardly a prude, but there is a time and place for everything, and this blog is a place for polite discourse.
This rule is not going to change.
Peace!