Worked about ten hours today trying to clean corrupt verbiage out of posts. There are more than 7000 posts over a span of 18 years. The years 2004 to mid-2011 were migrated from LJ. The rest were posted to my website, which is where you are now.
Some of the corrupt verbiage is only visible when I edit. But some of it is visible to readers. It may contain links that I wouldn’t want my readers to accidentally click on. Worse, it’s very jarring to see certain kinds of “information” next to some of my photos. I’m not providing words or context because I don’t want anyone googling that crap to land on my blog. So… it has to be cleaned up.
When I’m not posting and interacting with commenters, I realize how much of a link to the world this blog is for me. I have more readers than commenters, but I do have readers. I can feel them missing from my daily life. I don’t like it at all.
‘twas Vandalism in an electronic world.
I don’t ever want to go through that again. On the plus side, some issues my site has had since 2011 (none that affected readers/commenters) have FINALLY been resolved.