Last week (I don't remember what day... Friday? Saturday?) some"body" spammed the comments here.
I get notifications on my phone when a comment was left. My phone is almost always on silent but that means it still gives a little vibration when a notification comes in.
And so I watched for a good while while my phone just went buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz over and over, I didn't know if it would stop. I was surprised it was happening (and that some system somewhere wasn't catching it and stopping it.)
I wasn't home, there was nothing I could do to stop it, so I just kind of stood there in amazement that it was happening.
When I got home and logged in, I started deleting all of the spam comments. (All identical. Something like twenty one of them.) Blogger had "caught" a few, and labelled them as spam but most of them I had to report as spam and then delete. I don't really understand the strategy, but I guess whatever it is works enough that they keep doing it.
(The comments all had a link in them, I don't know what they want you to do other than click the link and... then who knows.)
It's not that big of a deal, I've had spam comments before, I've just never had so many in such a short amount of time like that... that was weird.
Blogger used to have a feature where you could report the "poster" as spam but that feature seems to be gone. I hope their systems figure it out and block the person though. Le shrug.
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