To All the Spammers and the Real People Whose Comments Didn’t Make It Through

Every month or so, I go through the comments which WordPress deems “spam” and wonder… are these spam?

It’s difficult to tell. For me.

Of course, I’m desperate for people to say nice things about my writing and demented illustrations so perhaps it’s more wishful thinking that perhaps some of these nice people are genuine.

Not spam.

In any case, after my very first (or perhaps second or third) subscriber (LISA! WHAT’S UP LISA 🙌) told me that her comments were not being posted… well, it took me a bit, but this morning I realized her comments had been categorized as spam.

Consequently, I now know that WordPress is categorizing Real People I have approved as spam and, if there is one, there could be more.

SO! While it seems unlikely six trucker companies all decided to read my blog and comment on it… in case you are real, I’m so sorry you’re considered spam.

Maybe there could be a secret code word which you could include which will tell me that you’re real like

ROSEBUD

Indeed. The combination of my apartment’s shitty WiFi, my lack of money, Facebook+ banning my blog, my ancient laptop slowly being taken over by Microsoft NO I DO NOT WANT TO HAVE A MICROSOFT ACCOUNT NO ONE NEEDS THAT all mean that maintaining this blog is a logistical and mental challenge.

Yet, for those of you deemed spam, I apologize. I appreciate your (nice) comments.

Rosebud, my friends. Rosebud.