Spamments: trick, or treat?
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9/30/2005 04:29:00 AM
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Erk. My brain is expoding... is this SPAM FROM THE FUTURE now? Oh god. You've opened up a wormhole RJ. We're all going to perish on the Event Horizon of Mortgage Schemes and Penis Enlargement Pills from Neverwhen. Must... reach... lever... and... turn... it... off...
It... could... work! MUWAHAHAHAHA! I think it's actually going to work!
Hey, Mel is cool - he allows you to delete his spamment... How polite.
I wonder if he has any concept at all that he's participating in an inter-dimensional time-slip experiment. Is this the kind of experiment that could end up with him getting a fly's head grafted to his body? Nah, I guess that's just wistful thinking...
This experiment is just beyond me.
You have created a vortexed portal for trapping future spam.
It's completely splangled.
Although I must say I'm in your future.
Now that's splangled too.
This comment will be posted about 8.45Am Sat 10 September for you but it's 10.45Pm Sat 10 September here.
Anaglyph - I suspect Mel already sports a fly's head. Or perhaps he's an ordinary pinhead with a fly's brain. Either way...
Jen - I'm thinking the words "splangled spamments" belong together. And your 14-hour head-start encourages me; makes it hard for my world to end today. Because how would the Sydney news report it? "The world will end yesterday?" I think not.
This is SUCH a cool idea RJ, I really wish I'd thought of it. You are a genius. OTOH, while the experiment runs, you're getting spamments on everything else too I bet...
Yours from The Future.
Anaglyph - from what I'm seeing you'd lose the bet. In case it isn't clear yet, that's the "secret," the spamment behavior I've noticed; hence this experiment. The future date simply keeps this pseudo-post first.
As long as the behavior continues, spamment problem is minimized. All the crap goes in this bucket, I periodically empty it and start again.
And I suppose now we'll learn if any spammenters actually read blogs and/or comments. I bet not...
Aha! You're doubly a genius. I wondered why I didn't have to clean up my entire blog when I got spammed. Fantastic idea! The Cow salutes you!
Um. I don't get it.
wow. like flies to honey. is that the right insect and sugary-substance pairing? I don't know.
I'm way behind on the spamments phenomenon. But whatever it is, seems to be working.
Anaglyph - mental image: The Cow standing on three legs, hoof to forehead. Anatomically improbable? Ah, but this is no ordinary cow. (thanks!)
Nadia - I've been somewhat vague because I don't know if spamments are left by people-at-keyboards or 'bots. I'll stop by your weblog and explain.
Syar - a fine pairing. And yes, so far so good.
Spamments are definitely bots. Just as the "blogs" they're advertising are bots. I'll spare you the moral dilemma of visiting one to investigate: they are collections of links to other things, collected by bots, all for the sake of attracting hits to fuel the adsense revenue. I've read a number of articles about it lately but it still seems really bizarre to me. Comments about nothing, to bring you to a blog about nothing, to scam some ad cash. Wonders of modern technology, eh?
But I can't for the life of me figure out how you're trapping them. It's utterly brilliant. How how how?
Scroobious - have you ever seen spamment appear in any post other than current 1st?
Doh.
I'm still amazed at just how many you're getting. It's like you have a little spamment honeypot hiding in here somewhere. I've only had about two in my entire life. This is outrageous.
No, I'm not jealous. Really. Not.
My plan is to have this non-post become a fixture - think "commode" - as the first item on the page. Real visitors* can ignore it, spamments will accumulate, and I'll periodically "flush" 'em just for the satisfaction of doing so.
* Real virtual visitors, of course. As opposed to... er. My brain is starting to hurt.
Jam, I hope you don't mind me doing this on your blog, but I would like the novelty, if only for a little while. All spammers and advertisers are welcome to comment on my most recent blog! Come to my blog.
SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM
Don't know what's scarier...the amount of spam, or the amount of commenting related to spamming. If the spammers disappeared, would Blogland cease to be???
Unforgetable Mens Sandals! Clearly, these bots are not clued in on your Converse...issues.
this is crazy. also, just so you know, once I dropped by your blog I went by to my blog and waiting for me were two fresh spamments, the first I've ever gotten (one of which I deleted out of pure confusion). did the magic of your trap here rub off on me or something? freaky.
Scroobius: I only started getting them recently too. First one or two and then a couple of days back it was like they all discovered me at once. I suspect the bots talk to one another and exchange info on active sites. Who knows how these despicable people work?
Oh, and I observe here that Jedith is weird - there's a competition to GET spam? OMG. You can have ALL mine.
FWIW, I got some 'Sai Baba' (religious nutters) spam which I'm pretty sure was not a bot. It makes sense - these people have been known to launch massive recruitment programs in other media. They just have a lot of nutters.
I started to flush the commode, so to speak, then decided to wait.
Glo - it *is* strange. Apparently, less post-content = more interesting comment-thread. I'm not sure I like what that implies. :-O
Nadia - and yet I worry; did this one arrive because a spambot "sniffed" my shoes? So to speak.
Syar - I knew this was coming. It's going to be all *my* fault somehow.
Anaglyph - a bot info exchange is both likely and scary. Maybe it *is* time to flush the commode. As for Jedith... I don't know. Maybe it's like, a hot summer day, people are getting pelted with water balloons but I'm still dry. And hot. So I might want to get hit with one or two.
Non-bot spamments might disrupt my experiment, so we don't want any of that.
I think you should flush the commode from time to time but leave the spamment trap running. Then, when we read back over our comments it will have this strange surreal ambience that onle WE will understand. This could be the best experiment since the beginning of blogdom. I think you should aim for 1 MILLION comments.
Anaglyph - I like the way you think; surreal ambience is one of my favorite flavors. Wonder if I could add an odometer-style comment counter just for this post? One million... D'Oh! I already deleted 8 or 10 spamments...
Hey, love your blog! I have one too. Come and check it out if you get time :-)
It's a who are indigo child site/blog. It pretty much covers who are indigo child related stuff.
It does make you feel a little unnecessary...like the spambot should give up commenting and start writing blogs...eventually, it would be world famous and the rest of us would just lick our wounds and cry a little as our clever dialogue goes unnoticed...but I love you, Jam! Please post soon!
Um... Glo? This post has the newest date, but it's not really even a post. The newer ones are dated older than this one. I *have* been posting... okay it's been Krispy Kreme and Spam week, sure, but they kind of resemble posts.
I wonder if the dating thing effects RSS update info or ATOM feeds? If you have a more recent post, will less recent posts get notified on the RSS feeds? Just a thought - I don't monitor much on RSS updates.
Anaglyph - in Firefox the ATOM feed shows this post as the newest. But it also lists every post on a site's "front" page, so... I don't know. Maybe I could change this post's time-stamp when a new one goes up?
That SPAM looked good, if it were served to cockroaches that is!
Normally I don't "respond" to spamments, but anonymous says the stuff posted here will make him/her BM for sure. Anybody else have that happen when they visit here? Because I don't know if I should be disgusted or try for e-fiber venture capital...
Arrrrr! It be a mighty fine blog ye be sailin' here Jim lad. Ye might like ter set yer sails to me own blog over at Cap'n Pete's. It's a blog fer lubbers such as yeself. There be wenches & cabin boys & all manner of interestin' affairs! Avast ye and belay and head on over t' Cap'n Pete's fer a whale of a time!!!!!!!!! Arrrrrrr!!!!!!
A fine bit of wordsmithy Cap'n; a dem fine show. Aye, yer a man worthy of his command. Here's to clear skies, favorable winds and safe havens. Arrrh!
Wow, that one's great - segue from Katrina to Russian Brides - smooth. Geddit? Katrina... Russian brides...
And a metaphor sailing under the surface -> world's lone superpower... This is one sophisticated spamment!
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Sen? Who the hell is Sen?
I think there's maybe some missing details, lost in time...
...for us to not see them.
I consider the Katrina / superpower / Russian bride thing to be one of the best I've received. Wish they were *all* so content-rich. A regular paradigm setter. Shifter. Whatever.
Speaking of time warps, I just got an email from "Neal," subject: Actual News. MWIS Special Situation Report. Date? Dec. 31, 1969. Which is interesting since the predominant firmware-based 00:00:00 date/timestamp for PCs is Jan. 1, 1970. Basically the message CANNOT exist, yet there it sits, new and fresh in my inbox. With my luck it's some kind of limited-time offer.
Or a stock tip, like buy lots of Apple and Microsoft 15 years down the road.
Can you say "buffer overflow?" I knew you could.
Time Buffer Overflow! TBO ou heard it here first!
It's great to log on here and read all the mindless spam I'm missing out on. Does anyone EVER click on these links, I wonder...?
" I LOVE your blog its so cool. My blog about HAIR LOSS is great too, I hope you visit..."
Oh. Wow, their blog must be cool. It's about hair loss and I could CARE LESS. But I'll log on anyway.
Duh.
I do in fact want all the boys to notice my hair night prom style. Oh, the humanity!
I also like Sonny M.'s offerings on anxiety; "it isn't anything special." Someone should direct Sonny M. to a site for LOSERS with LOW SELF-ESTEEM.
It's all here isn't it. The tragedy and the pathos of human existence.
BTW, you should see my new hair night prom style!
(They've invented a language too - I mean, what is that? Hair Night Prom Style?? Do they mean Prom Night Hairstyle? How can anyone be quite so dyslexic over and over? And with links too?)
Okay that last one is either a masterpiece of subtlety or something mis-copied from Spam For Dummies. I'm leaning toward the former because it might confirm something I suspect: spamments exist to place links not for people, but for auto-scanning counters.
If true, am I doing a bad thing by letting them continue to exist? I'm not sure. Is someone stupid enough to *pay* to have such links dropped into existence? Probably.
Too bad they're not paying us.
OH MY GOODNESS!!!! :D
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