I’ve been blogging for almost two years now and during that time I’ve gotten my fair share of spam, but the past few months or so it seems to have gotten progressively worse. And by worse, I mean sneakier.
They used to be pretty obvious – direct links, foreign languages, weird sounding phrases. But these days, the spammers are at least trying to sound legit. In fact, some comments might seem real until you read who it’s written by. Call me crazy, but “Electric Cigarette” or “Designer Replica Handbags” don’t strike me as real user names.
The good news is that you, as the reader of this blog, won’t likely see these comments. I, on the other hand, have to weed through them every day just in case some “normal” comments find their way through. The bad news is that, well, I have to weed through them every day. (I have almost 200 in my comment folder right now.) Nine times out of ten what’s written is something innocent enough like:
“Well written and very instructive. I’m thankful you took the time to post this because it was extremely useful.”
How do I know that one is spam, you might ask? Because it’s written by someone named Wilbert Monda and he referrences a home building site. That and the fact that the post he said is “extremely useful” is really just filled with photos and my rambles about a trip I made recently. Hmmm…
Then there are the ones that don’t even make any sense:
“Wonderful to get visiting your web site once again, it have been months for me. Properly this write-up that i’ve been waited for so prolonged. I have to have this write-up to complete my assignment inside college, and it has identical topic with your post. Thanks, good share.”
Wow, I like that he thinks my post is a “good share.” Almost as much as I like this one:
“Winsome thoughts here. Are you currently convinced it is the proper approach to look at it however? My very own private experience is always that we need to virtually stay and allow dwell due to the fact what a single human being thinks just — one more human being purely will not. Human beings are going to try and do what they want to do. Inside end, they generally do. By far the most we can hope for is always to set up a couple of items the following and there that hopefully, permits them to make just a little much better informed determination. Otherwise, good post. You’re surely producing me consider”
Those aren’t nearly as bad as the blatant spams though, the ones that have $#%%^ written in every other word and that include links to sites that you have to be over 18 to view. I mean really? Does someone out there honestly believe I’m not going to notice a comment like that?
What’s the deal with spam – does anyone know? It seems to me that it’s just a waste of someone’s resources because I can’t see that bloggers actually allow most spam to go through. So what’s the point of it? Anyone else have a problem with it?
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