Dear Chinese Spammers…

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Nî hão,

I don’t know how blogs work in your country but here, I have the ability to put a little tracker somewhere over there ——>

…that shows me which country my site’s visitors are coming from.

As I type this, there are about two visitors from China for every visitor from Canada (or another country where I might expect the occasional visitor – hello US, UK and various other commonwealth countries!)

The thing is – I also know you’re not visiting this site because you’re interested in libraries, technology or how cute my kids are.

You’re here posting spam comments encouraging me and my readers to buy your knock-off Louis Vuitton handbags, knock-off Beats headphones or your knock-off prescription medications.

But another thing you might not know about how blogs work is (at least with how I have mine set) is that this site automatically catches and discards 99.9% of spam messages no matter how much you pretend you like what I wrote in a post or want to know who designed my site or just want to reach out to discuss exciting business opportunities.

For the handful that make it to my comment queue, they still don’t get posted until I approve them.  And it’s *extremely* unlikely that I’m going to click “Approve” rather than “Spam” buttons (they’re bright green and bright red respectively which helps ensure I definitely don’t get those two not-so-similar-at-all words mixed up.)

Still, it’s irritating and as much as I don’t want to do it in case there’s one Chinese person who may find something interesting in my content, I think I might bring out the big guns.

I know you’re probably making about $0.04/hour and working in some horrible spam farm and I feel badly for you, I really do.  But it’s not going to work and trust me, you’re wasting your time if you think this blog has an audience that even justifies $0.04/hour of your time!

Please stop!  Or go bug Boing Boing instead. 😉

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