Failed experiment

So I have been getting a lot of spam comments lately on this blog. Really, why do people feel the need to do that? If I wanted to link to your crappy shoe sale blog, I would have already done so. If I wanted your opinion on how American women suck and everybody needs to marry foreigners, I would have solicited it directly. (Seriously - I got one of those today...some rambling tirade by an obvious nut case. I deleted it.)
Anyway, because I was sick of them, I changed my settings to need comment moderation.

I get a big fat FAIL, because I forgot to put my email address in to have notifications that people had left comments. I thought no one loved me anymore because I had no comments! (I should have known better, eh?) Then I went in my settings to change something else, and BEHOLD! there were over a dozen comments just waiting for me!
I'm so lame.

So, sorry if anyone was checking back to see comments. I changed it back. I will just have to be diligent and keep marking spammers.
And for you who seem to think it's okay to spam innocent artists on their blogs- knock it the hell off, you losers!