Auricle seems to have attracted the attention of a few spammers who seem to believe that readers want nothing better than to find the comments section of Auricle offering to consolidate their debts or sell really cheap DVDs of questionnable themes or parentage. I really don't want to force registration or turn-off comments but, as life gets more difficult for these sociopaths (or their minions) elsewhere, they seem to be migrating in the direction of blogs. We perhaps need a few exemplary prosecutions to get the message through.
Meanwhile, I'll just have to keep scrubbing this graffiti from Auricle.