I don’t understand these style comments. Sarcasm I understand. That’s usually how I read these kinds of comments. I mean, face it, this is a boring-ass blog. I don’t do it with the intent to gather more readers. It’s merely a place where family and interested friends can glance through to see what kinds of things I’m doing during the time they check in on me. About the only meaningful stuff I’ve put on here deals with the natural vision notes, which I created a special section for.
So why do multi-sentence paragraphs sometimes appear in my spam filter, writing about how there’s “substance” to this blog, unlike other blogs? What do these people get out of writing these things? I’m assuming it’s some kind of spam happening, but what’s the return? If I click their links, I’m usually taken to something that has nothing to do with the topic of the post the comment was on. And most of those sites seem like they get nothing out of even visitors popping on, though I could be wrong.
So far, only one have I understood. In the post I mentioned M–L–M and the comment was by a site that seems to scan for certain words and then posts links to those blogs. (These are actually funny, because the blog could be very negative about the tagword as a topic, yet it’s still added.)
The others? Honestly, if they show up in my spam folder, there’s a good chance I’ll read it, check for a site, but then leave it in the folder until I’ve forgotten I’m supposed to make a decision to keep it or not..and into the trash it goes.
Admittedly, a small part of me wishes the comments had substance to them. Perhaps if the post it was on had substance of its own then I might be more willingly to fall for the compliment. If that were to ever happen, however, I’d still likely be just as skeptical of its meaningfulness as I am now. Hah.
