Responding to Spam

In the nearly three months that Running Heads has been an active blog we’ve deleted over 1400 spam comments. Many if not most of these were obviously created by robots, filled with links to discount shoes and handbags and written in poor English. Still, I feel kind of bad that we have not been able to let these comments pass through the filters. Some of them need to be read and deserve response.

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