{"id":1287,"date":"2016-08-31T22:57:16","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T05:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.annefocke.net\/?p=1287"},"modified":"2016-08-31T22:57:16","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T05:57:16","slug":"are-you-sure-of-your-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.annefocke.net\/?p=1287","title":{"rendered":"Are you sure of your source?"},"content":{"rendered":"

One thing I’ve learned in my 10 months of blogging, or as I like to say “writing in public,” is just how much any site, even a fairly quiet one like mine, attracts spam\u00a0comments. Ads for medical treatments, sexual aids, long nonsensical posts where I suspect someone is being paid by the word, and many offers of help \u2013\u00a0to\u00a0generate more traffic, solve technical problems, or improve the content of my site. You don’t\u00a0see these comments because an internal process lets me “cut them off at the pass,” so to speak.<\/p>\n

Every now and then, they make me laugh. My favorite so far is a comment posted to the page where I\u00a0give some background on\u00a0myself, “About me.”<\/p>\n

\"Are<\/p>\n

I’m pretty sure of my source, though she still\u00a0surprises me.<\/p>\n

But the “conclusion”?<\/p>\n

Well\u2026I try not to pretend it won’t\u00a0ever come, but ultimately it remains one of those big mysteries.<\/p>\n

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