Growing pains

I opened my blog and was pleasantly shocked to discover I had no less than ELEVEN comments (!!!!) on my previous post. This couldn't be right, could it? Upon clicking the comments page-link, with, I might add, a great deal of excitement and trepidation, I stared at the long lists of porn-bot links posing as comments.

I'd been Spammed again.

It first appeared a few days ago. My first bit of spam. I promptly deleted it, figuring it was something every blogger had to deal with occasionally. However, being re-spammed and that too twice the number of sex links as compared to the last time is worrisome. Besides the fact that it's a mighty pain-in-the-arse to actually go about deleting them all individually. Obviously blogger.com have not given much thought to this aspect of blogging. Or maybe I'm just un-aware. If I remember correctly, there were certain links mentioning about comment verification or comment filtering, or something to that effect on the home page. I suppose now would be a good time to check those links out.

The only positive I could possibly draw from this episode would be that my Blog, has perhaps moved one step up the blogdom ladder. Hahaha. Afterall, I must be doing something right to attract the attention of porn bots. Wishful thinking indeed.

And while we're on the subject of growing pains, in response to one of the anonymous yet 'legitimate' comment - 'Are you planning on taking Karthik's offer?'

It does look very tempting doesnt it? The prospect of substantially increasing the blog's readership and popularity and so on and so forth. Reminds me of those investment companies or chit-funds which guaranteed increased returns on our investments. However pardon my skepticism on such short-term, high returns strategies.

I remember reading sometime ago on Lazygeek's blog, where he revealed that he was the only one to read his posts for the first six months! Imagine that. I've been a bit luckier in that aspect, having a few people comment on some of my posts every so often. Although I maintain that the joy of writing is reward in itself, a little feedback goes a long way.

Or if all else fails, I could always threaten my brother to leave me a few comments. Hahaha.

I would like my blog to be the proverbial 'Shop around the corner' serving a small, group of regular readers as opposed to a superblog with thousands of readers and the resulting inability of connecting with all readers.

-Nav

P.S : The first bit of spam appeared a few days ago as mentioned earlier. Coincidentally I put up the 'currently consuming' add-on's around the same time. Hmm...interesting. *eyes the add-on's suspiciously*