META: May all spammers get involuntary facial tatoos advertising embarrassing personal hygiene products

Excellent. I've got a total of about 10 legitimate outside comments over the whole time this blog has been up. A few weeks ago, I made it possible to comment anonymously. Today, some pathetic excuse for a human being spammed advertising comments onto the head entry on the site 4 times. So it's spammers 4, good folks 10. Could be worse, I guess…

Of course, in the process of cleaning up the mess I accidentally deleted the whole entry containing the site intro, and now I'm not sure how far it should have been backdated. Also, now that I think about it, I think that page contained the link explaining the name. Bleah. I will try to fix this now.

Where do such creepy folks come from? Why would anyone even bother to spam a site that gets almost no traffic? I just don't get it.

Anyway, I'll leave the anonymous commenting open a bit longer. For one thing, I want to get a better mechanism in place for legitimate users to get accounts. I've got a test instance of Drupal part way up on my home box—it should be finished in the next few days.

But any more spam, and I guess I'll have to shut it all down again. It would be sad, but that's the price we pay for tolerating creeps and losers in our society, I guess. Darn it.