I’m talking comment spam here, not the meat by-product delicacy so popular here in Korea.

There was a time when spam comments were a real pain in the ass, so bad in fact that some bloggers just turned off commenting in despair. These days there are much better filters and other tools to defeat the spambots.  I rarely get any spam at all, and most of  that goes right into the moderation queue.  So I was mildly amused when this comment showed up at my Columbia Area Darts Association website:

Hi, i read your blog from time to time and i own a similar one and i was just curious if you get a lot of spam comments? If so how do you prevent it, any plugin or anything you can advise? I get so much lately it's driving me mad so any assistance is very much appreciated.

Of course I clicked no hyperlinks nor did I otherwise respond but you do have to admire the creativity utilized in trying to trick me into doing so.  To what end I have no clue.