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December 05, 2006
Sincerely insincere
Is it just me, or are other bloggers noticing that comment spammers are doing an ever-better job of impersonating real human beings? Take this one: I can't be bothered with anything recently. It's not important. More or less nothing noteworthy going on right now, but I don't care. I've pretty much been doing nothing. Shrug.I had to read the silly comment, which was posted with a realistic sounding name, and it wasn't until I went to the URL that I saw it wasn't a real blog, but an advertisement for never-mind-what. Disagreements (and even insults) I can handle -- even when the identity of the commenter is disguised -- because at least they're real comments. But fake thoughts? They'll never invent software intuitive enough to stop such scummy behavior. That's why I'm standing behind my old fashioned approach to spammers. posted by Eric on 12.05.06 at 10:30 AM
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How about the following comment just left at this post: turds taste a little salty but are a great spread on toasted rye.The comment, left with no URL, aroused my curiosity, but it has nothing to do with cold fusion. I like to assume that there are reasons for such comments (and humans behind them), but increasingly it seems that they are mindless robots posting randomly, for no apparent reason, and to advertise nothing. Anonymous spam with nothing to sell? Why? Eric Scheie · December 6, 2006 08:44 AM Meet sex-crazed Russian teeen slutts now!!!!!! (Sorry, I couldn't help myself.) Rhodium Heart · December 7, 2006 01:42 AM |
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At least it's hard to see that that comment would be very effective at getting someone to click on the URL. It has nothing substantial to say, it's boring, and it obviously isn't really a response to whatever blog entry it was posted to.
They can't make a spam program that can write interesting comments that are actually relevant to the blog entry -- not until the programs are as intelligent as humans, at which point we might as well let them join the discussion.