Do you remember my last Thursday 13 post? The title of the post was Food Is My Daddy, and it was a list of signs that I love food a little too much. As is the case with any such subject, it was to laugh at myself and let the readers laugh at my expense with me.

I got a comment that I had to approve because this person had never commented on my blog before. So I read the comment, and it was something like “Excellent strategies and explanations!” Naturally, I was about to mark it as SPAM, but then something caught my eyes. Commentluv had a URL pointing to the commenter’s most recent blog post, which had to do with Thursday 13. So I went to Thursday 13 site to search for the same URL among those who participated. And what do you know, she was one of the participants. Clearly, she was going through each of the participants’ blogs and leaving comments without reading the post, without a cursory glance, not even the title, because would YOU leave a comment like that when the title of the post is Food Is My Daddy? Well, assuming she’s not extremely fucking stupid.

Basically, she was just putting comments to get people to come to her blog and leave comments. Not only that, I noticed that on Thursday 13 site, there is a list of participants’ blogs on the sidebar according to the number of comments left, under the heading of “Most Commented.” And her blog was up there (I’m not going to put her blog link here because I don’t want to increase traffic to her site by doing so).  So I marked her comment as SPAM and deleted it. I regret deleting it though since I could have used it in this post.

I know this wasn’t the first time it happened – believe it or not I’m not THAT stupid, and I appreciate it if you left comments without reading my post because you felt I’d be disappointed. But I tell you now, so you know.  If you don’t want to read my post, you don’t have to read it. But if you haven’t read it, please don’t comment. Don’t get me wrong. I like people leaving comments on my blog. I love comments. Who doesn’t? I feel loved when somebody leaves a comment. But I don’t want people commenting without reading it just to get comments back and increase traffic to their own blogs. Think about it. That’s the definition of SPAM comments.

So what I’m saying is this. Don’t spam my blog.