Can I just say that of all the foul, underhanded marketing on the internet, blog comment spam has got to rank right up there as one of the worst. Not only is it unsolicited advertising, but it’s invading a personal realm that bloggers are sharing with their friends, family, and colleagues.

Luckily, content management developers like those behind Wordpress detest this practice just as much as I, which is why they’re integrating powerful technologies such as Akismet into their software. Even with Akismet’s commendable spam-killing capabilities though, we’ve still been having some underhanded comments slip through the cracks.

Hopefully it’s not too big of an inconvience, as really all we can do is continue to kill off any spam we find. Of course we’ll keep dreaming of a future where all spamers, be they emailers or commenters, are keel-hauled in a river of boiling oil.

Boiling oil, and robot space-piranah.