Yeah. :-/ I have now changed account settings to screen anonymous comments. Though it does feel as though that's admitting that the spammers have already won.
a magic pill
People always want a magic pill. I think it's all related to consumerism -- because Buying Things is presented as the solution to everything, people want to be able to buy their way out of a problem (medical or otherwise) by acquiring a thing, by adding rather than taking away. Layering, like you say. (It's similar with green issues -- people want to be able to buy magic gadgets to monitor/fix their energy usage, rather than just, y'know, using less stuff, switching things off, etc.)
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Yeah. :-/ I have now changed account settings to screen anonymous comments. Though it does feel as though that's admitting that the spammers have already won.
a magic pill
People always want a magic pill. I think it's all related to consumerism -- because Buying Things is presented as the solution to everything, people want to be able to buy their way out of a problem (medical or otherwise) by acquiring a thing, by adding rather than taking away. Layering, like you say. (It's similar with green issues -- people want to be able to buy magic gadgets to monitor/fix their energy usage, rather than just, y'know, using less stuff, switching things off, etc.)