Hello, Good Friend. Have some Spam?

I am, as always, puzzled at the growing practice of writing spam comments on wordpress blogs. Or do they even know they are on wordpress? I mean some of them are funny, some are ignorant, some are incoherent, but what do they gain from them? Many of them are obviously canned, using the same comments with various names and addresses. On most it is obvious that they have not read the blog they are commenting on; deriding me for using too many videos when I have never used a video, or demanding in broken english that I correct my language and punctuation. Or criticizing me because my site is not showing up properly on their blackberrry or nookberry or whatever, and why do I not fix this?  One is tempted to answer them and to try to show them the error of their ways, but to do so probably puts you on another of their lists.  Is there a point? Is there a purpose? Thankfully, WordPress does a fantastic job of filtering out this gibberish, but why is it even there?  Surely these people can make better use of their time and energy, and of their computers?

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