spam

Stupid comments, and simple house rules

May 3, 2010

I have very few house rules for comments Be relevant to the post. Be courteous to the poster and other commenters. Use a real name or established identity. I don’t mind a nickname if it links to a blog where I can see who you are. I don’t mind a pseudonym that links to a [...]

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Spam and flagellation

February 8, 2010

There are always those spammers who hope that a piece of general flattery about your blog will tempt you into ignoring the generic unresponsiveness of the comment, or the link embedded in it. Even while not being fooled, I shall treasure today’s example, which seems to have been through some kind of computer translation programme: [...]

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Heh! New examples of creative spam – be warned

November 23, 2009

Checking my spam traps today I was struck by new levels of creativity. One spammer left a clever little aphorism that could almost (at least on a different post) have been appropriate, together with a link to YouTube for his web address: this took me to what I assume was a scam advert on money. [...]

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Russian Spam

October 27, 2009

Am I the only one who is suddenly finding a spike in Russian spam comments with a stupidly large – like bound-to-be-caught-in-a-spam-trap-large – number of links? //

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A new (to me) type of spam

October 25, 2009

Within six minutes of my posting about the BBC and the BNP I had a comment. It is largely unexceptional. It is firmly anti-racist. It is rooted in a reflection on the Bible. And it is entirely non-responsive to anything I said. I guess that someone has got a robot running: find any post that [...]

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Drowning in spam – a preemptive apology

September 21, 2009

I know spam comes and goes, but I’ve had 47 spam comments in the last 3 hours, which is highly unusual. Fortunately Akismet caught them all. But … that’s just annoying and increases the chance of losing a real comment awaiting approval. So if you left a comment and it’s vanished, sorry. But now you [...]

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Oh Claude, you’ve been spammed (explaining Jesus away)

June 26, 2009

I have had a visit from the same spammer who left a self-promotion on Claude Mariottini’s site. An author from what I think is a weird Jewish “heretical” sect is trying to get his even weirder book on Christianity promoted. According to the Amazon blurb: The Real Messiah explodes the myth that Jesus was the [...]

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