Posted on July 5, 2007 - by deCadmus
Flattery will get you every nowhere.
Your blog posts are insightful. I will take them into deep thought and consideration. Your point of view is very smart and intellectual.
Oh, goodness. I feel validated. Uplifted. Warm and fuzzy. I… Gosh, I… I wonder. Why are you linking to a web site promoting a diet aid in your comment?
Oh, you spammers are a smarmy lot.
I don’t agree with you in 100%, but you covered some good points regarding this topic…
Sometimes the complements are something less than a shower of rose-petals. A bit left-handed, even… but sincere, surely?
I Googled for something completely different, but found your page…and have to say thanks.
You’re welcome.
Others, still… well, they leave me wondering if I haven’t quite found the right note, just yet. Maybe my blog could be better. Maybe f I spruced up around the place I could win more hearts and minds.
Perseverance usually pays off, keep it up….
Or maybe just a better class of spammer.
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July 6, 2007
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You’re nicer than I am, man. I usually edit the comment so that the spammer’s message says something bad about their own product. “XYZ diet supplements give you cramps and acne” except I am usually a little harsher :)
This doesn’t stop spammers, but I also have set my permalink pages to noindex, nofollow so that if one of these clown’s messages does get by me, at least it won’t help their Google rank.
Lastly, have you seen reCAPTCHA?
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I’m fortunate to have some exceptionally good anti-spam tools powering Bloggle, so about the only time that I actually *see* what spammers have written is when I peruse the “spams that have been blocked” section of my admin console. Which is good, ’cause I get anywhere from several dozen to several hundred comment spams every day.
And I *hadn’t* seen reCAPTCHA, but I think it’s brilliant! And if I *didn’t* have tools already in place I’d want to use it.
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July 6, 2007
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I find it ironic the day you posted about spam was the day SPAM was introduced back in 1937.
Same day as the bikini, introduced 9 years later.
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Were my priorities better aligned I should have written about the bikini. Instead, those who do not know their history are doomed to write about pork products.