I think the folks that generate spam comments are getting a little smarter.
In our first bout with Spam, almost two years ago, the comments were usually just a string of letters and a link to some porn. That wasn’t very good.
Then they wised up a little and just put up the links to the porn. I mean, we might almost leave that up. I wonder if there’s a linksharing prospect with spam porn? That might generate some quality hits.
*bunny trail*
Have you ever noticed the description on spam porn never matches the porn you end up at?
Anyway, looking at our spam box today, some of them actually look like real comments. Very innocuous real comments, but better than four screens of urls. I’m almost tempted to leave some of them in, just to build up our comment section a little. But I’d feel awful if our “top Commenter” was aldhglag. That might be a little discouraging to our actual readers that leave comments that are usually a little more appropriate than “love site, thanks for all your hard work”. And it’s that implication of hard work that tells me this person never actually looked at the site.
Spammers, keep up the good work, it keeps the Anti-Virus progammers employed. And everyone else, tune in next time when we discover just which river Jeff is at the bottom of.
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