08 October 2005

Sorry for the Inconvenience

I've been getting many comment spams lately, so I had to turn on Word Verification.

Comment spams are comments that look like legit comments but then in the end they add a link to some commercial website. Why? So that the company's page ranking will be higher in Google. It's part of a Search Engine Optimization Strategy, and it's an absolutely horrendous trick.

Therefore, anyone who wishes to post comments must first enter a word shown in an image. It's an extra inconvenient step, but it helps me filter out most spam bots because computers are too dumb to read from certain images yet.

If you want to skip all that hassle, just leave a message on my Tag Board to your right :)

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