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Back when I knew even less about blogging than I do today, WordPress had to work overtime to protect me from being inundated by “spam.” Really, look at all the parasites who’ll use your space for free advertising, if they can.
Even so, there is one cryptic message, received seven years ago, that still puzzles me. A short and simple message: “I think I’m pregnant.”
Why tell me?
I have a lot to learn about blogging. For instance, I just checked to see what WordPress could possibly mean by setting aside some of the comments as “Spam.”
Would you believe it? They’re commercials–lousy commercials! Not only that: they are also attempts to use my blog space for advertising, without paying for it. This is a new form of parasitism.
There was also an oddball in the bunch: a one-line message that said, simply, “I think I’m pregnant.” What’s that going to turn out to be an ad for? I don’t think I want to know.
Oh, I know, it’s a little thing, a trivial annoyance. But we are getting awfully slipshod about our ethics lately, aren’t we? A more casual approach to “Thou shalt not steal” can hardly be imagined.