On my previous post I got three trackbacks in my moderation queue from three separate blogs on the bestpoliticalblogs.co.uk website that after long consideration — oh, okay, short consideration, like maybe two seconds — I decided to mark as “spam” and delete. My decision was based partly on the fact that all three blogs, though having different design, had the same content, including their “about” page which explained that they were a news aggregator for US election news. Since I am not a news provider but a personal blog I decided to opt out of the whole “let’s be a global political intardnet” thing. If you want me to link to you I suggest you 1) have a personal blog under some sort of personal name or nickname, 2) actually be a person instead of some sort of conglomeration or bot, and 3) email me (email link at the bottom of this site) with a complimentary email that actually has an opinion in it, 4) register on my blog and leave a comment (the first one will be moderated but I am quick), 5) trackback to me from your own personal blog that you a real person have put up and been blogging to for at least one other time with something that indicates you are a person not a faceless company or bot. KTHXBYE
Update: okay, make that four bloody trackbacks I’ve sent to the same place I send all those drug spams. Die, motherfuckers.
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November 1st, 2008 at 2:02 am
Trackback is a dead letter at The McGehee Zone. One day I realized that for every legitimate trackback I was getting, I had to delete at least twenty spambacks.
As for those “aggregator” blogs — a.k.a. “scraper” blogs — they’re bound for the same afterlife destination as spammers, child molesters, and tailgaters.