Archive for October 17th, 2007

Weird Spams

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

I'm starting to get some... interesting spam comments here. They're worded oddly and Akismet isn't picking them up. (Not to say Akismet doesn't work, mind you. Nearly 34,000 spams caught! I think that confirms workage to me.) It's almost like someone sat at the keyboard and typed a spam. Maybe it's a new robot that lets you mass post custom comments? I've had three, so far... I would have probably accepted them as comments and integrated them into the conversation, except for the fact that there's no real name, a obviously fake email, and a website link that doesn't work. I'm sorry, but to the smart filter I have installed (namely my brain), that means spam.

If you are the people responsible for a post about how World of Warcraft is behind gold sellers, how AVG AntiVirus is the best enterprise scanner, and how Blood and Chocolate is not worth your money, come back and tell me again so I can know if you're robots or not. I'm telling you, the lack of a name and email and web address that works is a little telling...

(Actually, I just rechecked the werewolf comment and the site works now, so I added that comment to the post. Still, it was a little odd...)

In the future, I ask that new people try to make their posts sounds less generic, maybe making an effort to at least say "this isn't a bot!" that I can edit out if you want.