Hey y’all, guess what? The DOT website may have cooties.
OK, maybe not cooties, but it seems they may at least have have crawlers and spiders, which are both equally as disturbing as cooties, so whatever.
You know why it’s disturbing?
Because you’d think a gubmint agency would have some kind of verification process to weed out cootie comments. I feel like if I have to verify that I’m “not a bot” to comment on an Overdrive magazine post that I wrote, I should at the very least have to do so to leave comments that pertain to lawmaking and government.
Silly me. I’m just part of that “amateur-hour advocacy group” who didn’t nonetheless make a “rookie mistake” by encouraging “bots” to do a job people need to be doing themselves with genuine, applicable, relevant information to have any credibility. (I feel a twinge of familiarity in this general subject. Could this be … irony?)
And I’m going to do something unpopular here. I’m going to defend the president of the ATA – there have been brutal and unfounded accusations of Mr. Spear hiring the bots himself. Y’all lay off ol’ Chris.
He’s busy driving a truck and making a living.
