Spam

This blog receives its share of spammy comments each day. I don't have CAPTCHA word verification on because it's so annoying, but the Blogger spam filters are very good at identifying a spam comment and directing it to the spam folder instead of publishing it. You see, I have trained the filters to recognize spam. I don't simply delete a comment if it appears on a blog post; I mark it as spam first, then delete it. Identifying a comment as spam trains the spam filters, and they quickly learn what constitutes spam on my blog.
 
Red discussed the spam problem here and I agree they a nuisance to readers who subscribe to comments and end up reading this garbage. Not even word verification plus filters can prevent the spam from coming through via email. Sorry about that!

I have comment moderation on for posts over 14 days old, and if a specific older post seems to be a target, I will turn off comments on that post.

For your amusement, here are a few of the simpler spam comments I have seen in the past. They're short, sweet and quite generic.


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Then there are the ones that have a bit more detail in them. Still obviously generic, but might possibly be mistaken for sincere comments were it not for the inclusion of a link to some unrelated web page. They're fun to read when you keep in mind that they have been left on a spanking blog. I have made no effort to fix the shaky grammar.


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This one's my all-time favourite.


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I can imagine the spammer and his neighbour doing spanking research at the library.


The next one is an example of overkill. The spammer seems to have strung together a bunch of unrelated spammy comments that could each stand alone. Why? For effect? To give the impression of having really read the blog? Or maybe to fool the filters. Anyway, here it is, and remember, it was left as a single comment. I couldn't resist adding my own comments in [square brackets].


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Hi! Would you mind if I share your blog with my myspace group? There's a lot of folks that I think would really appreciate your content. Please let me know. Thank you [Myspace? Really?  This is the 21th century!

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So here's the final word on spam, from George and Gracie: