I have given up trying to clean out the Spam file of this blog. The program that does that allows you to delete 100 spam messages at a time. I've done it over and over again and I'm still not out of the backlog for 2018. Looking at them, most of them are old hate-mail that was too stupid and useless for me to do anything else with but junk them. A few were attempts at scams, probably less than 1%. I do know that when I decided that I'd moderate comments because I didn't want this to turn into the kind of open comment food-fight that those usually turn into AND THAT I WOULD NOT KNOWINGLY CARRY LIES TOLD ABOUT NAMED PEOPLE I didn't realize what a high percentage of comments that would turn out to be. I wish I'd just deleted those. I wonder where they reside. Will they ever disappear or will they always be there in a way that could be opened and read? I do know I've given up trying to empty it out. I must have deleted a couple of thousand of those people have tried to post since last March. The ones I read were mostly just stupid stuff, the stuff from "the left" as stupid as the stuff from the right. I think stupid people probably lie more. It's a symptom of stupidity.
Telling lies is so much easier than thinking.
ReplyDeleteReality is a challenge because it's real. My realizing that the idiocy of content neutrality in free speech absolutism would inevitably favor liars was a huge step out of the futility of secular-lefty orthodoxy.
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