If you go to my sidebar and scroll to the bottom right, you will find an Askimet spam counter. As of today it’s climbed to nearly 5,900. That’s an average of about 17 a day since my first post nearly a year ago, though most have hit only in the past three months.

Askimet does an amazing job filtering the crap out of your comments box. The service is free and comes as a default on WordPress.com. It works in the background, quietly making sure that only real, live human beings get a chance to have their say on what you post.

But sometimes it works too well. Sometimes a real comment from a real reader gets thrown into the spam dump. That’s why it pays to take a look in there once in a while to see what Askimet has been up to.

It doesn’t happen that often, but if you do see a real comment has been accidently put in the spam queue, simply check the Not Spam box at bottom left of the comment, then click De-spam marked comments at the bottom of the page. The comment will then re-appear on the post where it belongs. Feeling a little like covered in scum after hanging around in that dreck, but at least it doesn’t stay there forever.

But in the interest of fairness and equal time to those whose only contribution to the Internet is to gum it up with worthless shit, I have pulled out some of the more remarkable little spam-turds gleaned over the past few months of comment rescue operations.

Mr Chin of peek-show.cn.sexy-mature-movie tells me: Great site! I will bookmark for my sons to view as well!!! which makes me wonder what he’s already been showing his boys.

Someone who’s probably can has-ing too much Cheezburgr tells me: I is pleasantly amazed! Thank!!! while Britney at pussy-movies.cn/hardcore-shemale writes: Wow!!! Good job. Could I take some of yours triks to build my own site? Britney: trust me, your triks are already legendary; could I learn from you?

Stuff like This site is really superb!!! Thank you for you work! Good Luck2 are getting to be as common as news of the real Britney getting hauled off to hospital, but sometimes something original does pop up.

Mr gluhhlnhjkljnfrwaoi9srxsex has enthused most exclamatorially over my recent Scientology piece by saying: i think you are so sexy!!!!!!!!! kiss my vigina sexy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mr gluh, do I know you? Your name reminds me of a girlfriend who used to make that noise when she cleared her throat.

Sveta from telemarketing Asia somehow manages to keep her spelling intact in saying: The site\’\’s very professional! Keep up the good work! Oh yes, one extra comment – maybe you could add more pictures too! So, good luck to your team!

Thanks Sveta babe. My team is working in unison to help spill forth some of the best the Internet has to offer. Please check back.

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