Free iPods/minis/ad nauseum is becoming the new spam

Is it just me, or is anyone else getting really annoyed by seeing comment posts for
free iPods, free Mac minis, blah blah blah,
everywhere I look?? It seems like it's becoming the new spam. I've suffered through email spam (still not 100% solved but Gmail helps), blog spam (have
implemented Jeff Barr's solution for WordPress, working so far), and now this.

Annoying.

I know comments are seen as free self-promotion but please, if you're trying to get a free iPod/whatever, and want to include a link, link it to your name, don't include the link in the body of your comment, and don't mention it in your post. I actually haven't seen too much of this here on TUAW which is *awesome*, thanks for being respectful everybody.
But I wanted to head things off at the pass because I keep seeing a growing number of posts on other Mac sites/forums that say something along the lines of "Great post! Click here to get a free iPod." You know, spam.

Thanks for listening to my rant. :)