Pesky spammers at it again

My messy desktop computer area

We bloggers enjoy our online friends  and often make contacts we otherwise would not have had were it not for our readers and followers.  I removed word verification for current comments at the suggestion of fellow bloggers particularly those on Sepia Saturday but lately I am considering reinstalling that feature because, I am being pestered beyond my tolerance by spammers.  These clowns appear to be  from Turkey, Korea, Russia and God knows where; fortunately because they are focusing on long ago previously published posts on which publication of their solicitous comments requires my approval,  I simply mark them as spam and flush them into the delete land.   They always post anonymously inviting me to  link back,  yeah  that is not gonna' happen. I picture  them hacking away with their laptops or smart phones in some tacky Internet cafe.  There is even a Facebook site, something like Third World Internet Cafe, I saw when I began to think more about this annoyance.  How they happened here I do not know. 

A Google internet site somewhere in ??

Here is an example of  one of the comments from my spam filter today..."Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Favorite Stanley Kunitz Poem The Layers":      Terrific work! That is the type of information that should be shared round the net. Disgrace on Google for now not positioning this blish upper! Come on over and seek advice from my site . Thank you =)"   Usually they are comically misspelled.  Thankfully I am not craving attention and know to ignore these.  Those who may be drawn in are bound to experience problems with virus' and who knows what else. 

Consequently  I have resorted to setting aside some of my older posts as drafts to retitle and republish  later.  One or two seemed to be favored by spammers promoting or pushing cigarettes.  What a weird world, I detest smoking so it is ironic they would  try to link with me.  I wish that Blogger had the block feature or a blacklist as in email,  but it does not. 

I transferred one former book review written  in 2010 to my other blog, which has avoided  spammers.  Trouble is that book blog is avoiding followers too. Two sides to everything, attract followers  and tolerate spammers?

As with everything, there is some good  coming from this prompting me to get to the clean up work on previous posts.  It is revealing how I have progressed in my  blogging over the years, and in my opinion I have improved with inclusion of photos and labels.  Maturing at the keyboard is a good thing, it means I continue to learn.  I suppose I could  let this blog lie dormant and create another, but really prefer not to do so,  two are more than enough for me. Well besides online clean up I have  some physical tidying tasks awaiting me right here in this corner,  later of course. 

I find less time to sit at the keyboard, because while our weather continues to shine, I must be outside getting my laps around the track.  My chiropractic visit this week confirmed that it is not good to be sitting for long periods, giving thumbs up to  my fidgeting.  The chiropractor said, not good to sit for more than an hour, kind of like a church service, here is where the Catholics have it in spades, they are up and down and kneeling and standing, movement the life force is the way to be. 

 Is anyone else out there experiencing this plague of solicitous spammers and if so what  else to do?