Spam

This blog gets a lot of spam comments – there were 270+ pending comments when I turned on the captcha check last week.  Most of them are like this…

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But then, amist all of the multi-paragraph commercials, I found this gem…

I’m not sure you have this right ;-)  But thank you for a post!

?!?!  What is the point to this?  The poster’s webpage was an advertisement, so this is another spamming idea — post a comment that is similar to what a real person would say so that the blog admin approves it and makes your webpage available.  This gets me thinking, “The spammer thought a negative comment was more likely to be approved.”  But then it got me thinking, “What if spam’s only purpose was to insult?”

1. I can tell you tried very hard to make this a good post.  Sorry.
2. You are so wrong I don’t know where to start.
3. There is a spelling error above, but you won’t find it!

Imagine how damaging that could be for a fresh and new blogger.  Or if you got these by email instead of promises of Viagra and penile enhancement.  Oy.

… So… the captchas seem to be working so far.