Tag: Behind the scenes

(Digital Collections) Hot and Bot-hered: The Joys of Moderating Spam Comments

One of the unexpected joys of writing this blog is filtering out the spam comments we receive on almost every post. Many are garden variety garbage gathered by spambots and spit back out as “comments.” These get caught by the spam filters and deleted routinely. Others are from people hoping to use the blog as a launchpad for their own…