I noticed on the front page that there was a comment on an old article, so I went to see it, here. It looks like the work of a bot. The name "Nick" was hyperlinked to some sort of automotive site. I edited out both the link and the e-mail address, but left the comment (it was rather inoccuous, and editing was readily obvious while I didn't see the ability to delete until after I'd done the editing). Probably next time I would just delete the comment, but I thought I'd alert you to the possibility that there's a bot program out there that has figured out how to comment here.
I'll keep on it.
--M. J. Young
Yep, it looks like there is a bot. Which is actually pretty common. The comment spam blocker grabbed 66 today, all either "nice" or "interesting" or something of that sort. It's a good system but every now and then one slips through.
Thanks for pointing it out. I've deleted it.
I deleted comments by a couple of Spammers, but there is a comment here that seems to be outside my jurisdiction--no edit link when I view it. I thought I should call it to your attention.
--M. J. Young
I deleted it. There's a spambot hammering us right now, with something like 400 spams a day. Almost all of them are getting caught, but I've been deleting them as they slip through. Thanks for pointing this one out.