Behind the scenes here at the action-packed DannoUke blog, every post I write gets about 50 spam responses.
My auto-bot anti-spam system is good and catches most of it. But to make sure a real comment doesn’t get flagged as spam, I go through and double-check.
The Self-Esteem Boost
Well, you can imagine my delight after posting a simple three sentence notice about the next uke club meeting, to find a comment like:
You are so cool! I don’t believe I’ve truly read through something like this before. So wonderful to discover another person with original thoughts on this issue.
Wow! I’m feeling pretty good right now. My three sentences really seem to have changed this person’s life!
The Way to an Artist’s Heart…
Furthermore, writes a commenter named No Credit:
I would like to say that this write-up very pressured me to check out and do it! Your writing taste has been surprised me.
Now I don’t like to think that I very pressured anybody to check out and do it, but writers, like many artists, are susceptible to flattery, and if I blushed a little to learn that my writing taste has been surprised, well, can you blame me?
Naturally, I had to follow this commenter’s link to his own site, where I learned that I could buy an entire car with absolutely no credit!
This is what it’s all about–real people making real connections.
Thank you, No Credit!
Can’t Please All of the People
Alas, Big Red Bottom, who sells makeup bags from his site, had to ruin it all for me with his virulent comment:
The next time I read a blog, I hope that it doesn’t disappoint me as much as this 1. I mean, I know it was my selection to read, but I in fact thought you’d have something intriguing to say. All I hear is often a bunch of whining about something that you simply could fix if you ever weren’t too busy seeking for attention.
When I read this, I took a minute to look within myself. And you know what? I didn’t like what I saw.
Big Red Bottom was right. When I said “uke club meeting August 18,” why did I have to make it such a bunch of whining? Why didn’t I simply fix it?
My Horrible Quandry
For my loyal readers who agree with Big Red Bottom, I would like to sincerely apologize.
Except I’m worried that would sound like I was too busy seeking for attention.
Articles like this give Ukulele’s a bad name by calling them “Uke” let alone confusing children on the proper name of this grand instrument. If you can take the time to spell out April, you at least spell out the word Ukulele. That’s my opinion, but other then that I found your stament to be riveting and will share it with all my friends.
Beautifully spam-like non-spam!