Comments?!!?! BLAM!!

When I started this blog, I had a lot to learn. A lot. Kevin and Jeremy have pushed and led me through the process and helped me solve the problems that arise. One thing that didn’t come up at the beginning was the “comments” option. I knew that blogs had comments, but I didn’t think through how those things happened until my first posts went out. I got a couple of e-mails that said there was a comment waiting for my approval. I didn’t know what I was supposed to do nor how to do it. I phoned Jeremy to get help.

“I have to approve any comment anyone makes?” I asked, surprised.

“No,” he said. “You get to approve any comment anyone makes.”

Of course that makes sense. Otherwise, all sorts of things might get posted out there in the e-world. I learned, and appreciated, that I had control over things. After you post a comment, and I say it’s all right, it gets put up. If you get “approved” a couple of times, then the program knows you’re genuine and I don’t have to “moderate” your post. Sounds easy, huh? That was before I really understood what sorts of things might be coming up.

The fIrst few comments (well, the comments beyond the sensible things that were written by people I know) came from places like (and this is absolutely true) “dillard’s evening gowns” and encouraged me to increase the traffic to my web site. Almost every day there was something I needed to go and mark as “spam” to delete it.

They kept popping up/in periodically. Then the Chinese arrived.

Their comments look like this.
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I am particularly amused by the “Smilebox” sitting in the middle of this. And this is only (again, absolutely true) about 10 percent of the complete comment. Not exactly a comment; more like a short story.

You know how, when you buy something that was manufactured in another country, the instructions appear to have been written in the language of that country and translated into English by someone for whom English is not their native tongue? They say things like “apply driver to the head and use tool to rotate appliance to complete shelf attachment.” When they mean “tighten the screws in the shelf.” So I wonder about the source of this one
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Comment:
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Maybe you could figure it out if I included the remaining forty lines. Did one of the Chinese character comments go to a translator who only knows some English? And they translated the words they knew into English but just put the other words into the English alphabet? And really? NFL jerseys? Is Lufthansa a small town?

This one is interesting. It’s like they put the Chinese characters into a computer program and said “Translate this into Spanish” and the computer really tried hard, but every now and then it just gave up in frustration and threw in a Chinese character, just to keep itself sane.
Author : ojvomsov2 (IP: 63.141.240.138 , 63.141.240.138)
Comment:
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At least I think it’s Spanish.

Then there’s this one, a timely comment on October 22 on a post from mid-June:
A new comment on the post “Phone Etiquette” is waiting for your approval
Author : zi xiu tang ingredients
Comment:
What a lovely story! The story in this YouTube video that is posted here is genuinely a good one with having fastidious picture quality.
Yes, even when a post has no photo, much less a video, I strive for a fastidious picture quality!

This one is completely compelling
Author : Kathie
Comment:
Hello, I am writing in an unusual case … Some time ago, I used your services, and one of your employees face was familiar to me. At dinner with my wife, it turned out that he was a burglar, who 5 years ago broke into our home!!! This is ridiculous!!! How you can hire criminals? I found at least 3 bad entries for him at website for background check!! I am sure there are more!!! Please do something about it, things like that are ridiculous!!!
Yes. “Ridiculous” is the word that comes to my mind, too.

More recently, there have been a spate of comments wondering if I would like to buy some medications. This one, for example:
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Then three days later:
Comment:
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Is tramadol for dogs? Get yourself some valium instead!

This is a little anxiety-producing
Author : canada goose camp carhartt joy rich check hooded jacket
Comment:
This is by far the worst piece of absolute rubbish I have ever read. Shame, shame on the cosa rica star for publishing an article that is very poorly researched, full of so many lies and outrageous accusations. Lies and accusations about a person that was named by the Guardian as one of the 50 people able to save this planet. A man that has been battling to save our dying oceans for over 35 years. Oceans that are the life support system for our planet, providing up to 80% of our oxygen. To support an article like this in anyway, is to support the destruction of our oceans, to support the total destruction of the life support system of our rare and beautiful planet earth!
But I am sort of interested in the canada goose camp hooded jacket

This came last week:
A new comment on the post “Over the River, Through the Woods, and Grandmother’s Coming Here Instead” is waiting for your approval
Comment:
I like your post. It is great to see you verbalize from the heart and clarity on this critical topic can be simply observed.
The post was about making cornbread dressing for Thanksgiving, which I suppose, in some people’s eyes (my sister), is critical.

Another comment on that post:
Comment:
Thanks…Quite great data, I come to feel a lot far more men and women need to have to study this.
Also my sister’s attitude about cornbread dressing.

This one refers to a post on King James’ Bibles:
Comment:
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Now, I really do know that these things are computer-generated comments that go everywhere to everyone. I looked up “spam” to see where the term comes from, or really, I guess, to see how the name of a lunch meat became the word for this stuff. I don’t know what the spammers are trying to accomplish. I’m frustrated because I have to go and mark all those things as spam to get rid of them. And the Chinese are particularly over-whelming. In one day, there were 200 comments to get rid of. I was doing it piecemeal until Jeremy told me how to do it more efficiently. I am getting faster, but I did accidentally delete a post from a cousin that I was wanted to read, and Jeremy went back and found it in the middle of a bunch of spam. So, I’m more careful, now, too. King James translates “patience” as “longsuffering.” That’s pretty much how I feel about this.

I strong nuff fo handle any kine, cuz I stay tight wit Christ, an he give me da power fo do um.
Fo Da Philippi Peopo 4:13 (Hawai‘i Pidgin)

You may be more familiar with this verse in other translations of Philippians 4:13, but I like it in Hawai’i Pidgin. I am strong nuff fo handle any kine. And I do stay tight wit Christ.