We’re hosting the next edition of Berry go Round, a blog carnival dedicated to plants and botany. In case you didn’t know, a blog carnival gathers together in one place, on a regular basis, good blog posts on a particular topic. It’s a way of pointing people to stuff they may not know about and of sharing the love. And we’ve had loads of submissions for the next Berry go Round.
Alas, most of them are idiotic submissions from idiots who are paid by even bigger idiots to waste our time and spoil the internet for everyone.
We have so far received 16 tip-top recommendations, from 15 Sci-Fi Predictions That Came True to 10 Things That Won’t Burn in a House Fire. You can imagine how thrilled we will be to share those with you next week.
The weird part about this spam torrent is that it probably involves real people. There’s a submission form to nominate posts for the carnival and it requires some pretty elaborate cutting and pasting that I suspect needs not a robot but a person. Even if it didn’t, there’s a person looking at each submission with a delete button at his fingertips. ((If he weren’t a bit desperate for something light to write this morning.)) And the people who are polluting our world with this crap are, I bet, being paid by their evil overlords to do so.
Wise up, cretins. Your crap ain’t gonna make it to our pages. Ever.
If, on the other hand, you genuinely want to share an interesting post on plants or botany — your own or someone else’s — use the form, or send direct to berrygoround at gmail dot com, and after intense scrutiny by our living, breathing crap detector, there’s a good chance it will make it to our pages.
