Wed, 25 Jan 2006 at 2:24 pm
Luckily enough, WordPress has a fairly efficient spam-filtering tool for comments. It catches all spam and places it in a special “holding cell” until I can review it. It has never accidentally put a legitimate comment into the holding cell.
Now, here is what I don’t get. This is a typical spam comment:
Great blog. It’s nice to be here! Bad, Bad, Red nothing comparative to Bad: http://www.euronews.net/ , when Round is Soldier it will Rape Stake Central Pair Rape or not , Girl will Slot unconditionally Green Chair Create or not
What’s with all the nonsense phrases? The automated program that posts these is obviously capable of generating clear English phrases – look at the first and second phrases. Why not extend this to the rest of the post? Why fill it in with random words?
Well, I’ve always believed that when Life gives you lemons, you should squirt lemon juice into Life’s eye and make it cry.
So, here we have the first installment of (drumroll. . .)
SPAM HAIKU
Taken from actual spam messages received in my comments
Mistery of the Cosmos
when Cosmos is Mistery
it will Win Soldier
Increase Chips is very good
Soldier Rape
when Round is Soldier it will Rape
Rape or not , Girl will
Slot unconditionally
UPDATE (28-Jan-06): Haiku is the simplest form of poetry imaginable. Anyone who can count syllables can make a free-form Haiku. Its fairly impossible to screw up — unless you are TJ.
Yes, for those who were paying attention, you will note that my Haiku have a syllable count of 7, 5, 7 instead of the actual 5, 7, 5. Next, I will try my hand at iambic pentameter spam. . . doh!
SeLiNa Says:
January 28th, 2006 at 9:46 am
Wow, those spammers are getting pretty crafty aren’t they! Is WordPress free by the way? I’m thinking of making a switch.
TJ Says:
January 28th, 2006 at 11:02 am
WordPress is totally free and is fully customizable. You need to have a web-host to load it on — my web hosting service offers automatic WordPress setup, but if you know your stuff you can install it on your server yourself.
WordPress home: http://wordpress.org/
Alex King’s Themes: http://www.alexking.org/software/wordpress/theme_browser.php
The theme selection is amazing since so many people have designed there own and posted them on the web. There are also a dizzying number of plugins to help you add greater functionality to your blog.
Better Living through Chemistry » How to Enjoy Spam Says:
May 12th, 2006 at 2:47 pm
[...] So you have to do the next best thing: Try to enjoy it! I started down this path some time ago when I made some haiku out of comment spam that appeared on this blog. Another approach is this guy who started amusing himself by writing back to the spammers. Below is an example of a typical response: Subject: Re: Young College Chicks! To: cupracefan@tintin.net From: Jonathan Land Date: 02/20/2001 [...]