The Republic of Awesome

If you haven’t already noticed, I disabled comments on the Republic.

Why?

Because a majority of comments are spam trying to lure visitors to an adult site, or sell some acai diet, or help me elongate my penis.

I don’t need any of that except for the porn since I’m pretty damn slim and my cock’s of a respectable size kthnxbai.

Comments will probably be re-enabled once I install a comment captcha widget. Gotta catch em’ all, bitches!

Anyway, comment spam is an interesting though unethical tactic to drive traffic to your blog/site/porn. It is usually generated using a program that seeks out blog sites on the web to spam.

By spamming sites with comments you generate two things:

1. Direct traffic to your site. The curious will click on your URL and pop by your site
2. Backlinks. By leaving your URL on other sites you create valuable backlinks which will boost your site’s ranking on search engines

Good for your site, a minor nuissance to the webmasters of sites you spam.

So stop spammimg me, motherfuckers!