Coming Back From An Early Gravatar

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As the last bit of dirt was being shoveled upon my early Gravatar site, I fought desperately for the blogging life I once knew.

I don’t know what strange phenomena was ruling over my lack of ability to comment on pages requiring registration.  Don’t know if Gravatar was lurking, Word Press in the shadows or, a combination. 

If I was reading a blog where I wanted to comment, and it had a registration, sign-in box where clicking on the WP icon was all that was necessary, it refused my entry.

Today, I took one step out of the Gravatar.  Instead of logging in, I went to the first blog, and read a post.  Wrote my comment, clicked on the WP icon.  Pop-up for sign-in.  Logged in, clicked on the ‘X‘ in the upper right hand corner of the pop-up for sign-in.  Clicked on the Post Comment icon, and closed my eyes for just a moment.

Upon regaining clear vision, instead of the error message, my comment had posted.  I had both feet out of the Gravatar, and a renewed blogging life.  I won!  The seemingly, forever lost ability to comment was somehow restored.

I refused death at my Gravatar site, taking my left foot, then, my right out of the Gravatar, and cursed the demons trying to retain me, into oblivion!  Absolutely nothing is impossible.  Nothing!

 

LET THEM EAT PIE

The spammer is trying to sell cakes.  Foreign carrot cakes.  No, thanks.  American Apple Pie will do, just fine.  Even if, I liked carrot cakes, they are available closer to home. 

The spammer leads with the exact same, negative comment on every spam.  Verbatim.  No reference to the post’s subject matter.  Then concludes with ordering some cake could change everything for the better.  Again, I will decline the offer.

How many blogs are inundated with spam for comments?  Probably, many to most.  The filters are on, and most, like mine filter it out.  Again, at WordPress, they can be edited, and/or disposed of.

Here’s what I don’t understand, and kind of intrigues me.  Why would a spammer be so negative to a blog they would like to place a comment to enhance sales of their product?  Is there some strategy I’m missing?  Has naivete presented itself?  Is it some sort of reverse psychology?  I really don’t get it.

As if this spammer was actually reading the posts, they lead off with some automated, contemplation….but, instead of, ‘hmmm,’ they can’t even get that right, and I quote verbatim: ‘hrm’

Hmmm……..