Spam, Spam, Spam

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If I had a can of Spam for every spam comment that tried to sneak through onto one of my blogs, I'd be set up with food for the rest of my life, which might be short if that's all I ate. I needed to do some maintenance work on one of my blogs. I had mostly stopped posting on it in 2014. I have just moderated and trashed 609 comments from one post alone. Fortunately, most of the other posts don't have that many comments I need to moderate. I just switched to using Disquis to handle the comments, so I hope I won't have so many to go through. It may be time to do another post on that site so it won't look so neglected. I don't know what motivates these spammers. I guess they hope comments won't be moderated. Some of them take half a page, are full of links and portions in other languages. Most were posted by the same names with a link that starts with only ww. in instead of www.. The link appeared to be from an Italian site. The same link and email address were posted by several different identities that I'm sure must have been robots. The comments were all nonsense. I guess these spammers are hoping to get through unmoderated and either scam people, infect their computers, or get backlinks to questionable sites. Why do you think people do this? If you blog, do you have this problem?