As 2012 draws to a close (and none too soon) I would like to take this opportunity to pass along best wishes for a Very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
I also want to thank everyone who checked out Write Nature over the past year.
Response to the website exceeded my expectations and despite being a gut-wrenching exercise from time to time, the fact that some posts garnered over 7000 hits suggest that I was striking a nerve with at least a few readers out there.
For those of you who provided feedback, it was greatly appreciated.
And for those of you who provided spam, I loved it.
Yes. I Love Spam.
There, I said it.
When I took a course to set up my website, the instructor suggested a plugin to detect and delete spam, that plethora of Self-serving Promotion And Meaningless comments whose primary objective it is to direct traffic and money to the author’s own site or an affiliate, while wasting your time and bogging your site down.
I’m happy to say that the plugin works perfectly, but I’m still not sure I want to delete everything it detects.
Why would I?
I’ve had people tell me that my site is “the best they have read ever”, and that I’m “sure to be superstar”, so “keep up it”. Neither articulate not grammatically correct but what can I say. Still others suggest my writing is “prize-winning” and others still suggest that I could “follow their links to greater traffic and a larger audience”.
Viagra for writers if you will.
I’m tempted.
Spammers are telling me what any aspiring writer would want to hear. They give me a confidence I’ve been longing for. How could they possibly be wrong?
So for all you serious readers of Write Nature, thanks.
And for all of you spammers … bring it on.
My little plug-in will ferret you out of the mix but I will still be able to decide if I need an ego boost either by reading your inspiring comments or sending you out through the hole in the ozone layer.
But I digress.
Back to the main message of this post.
Have a Very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.