I have a spam filter on the comments, and it catches most of the rubbish.
What puzzles me is what some of the spam actually is. There is stuff in Chinese, Japanese and Russian. How many people reading my blog would actually read those languages?
And why do you think someone would bother to post this (computer generated?) nonsense - on a very old blog entry:
I be enduring infer from a insufficient of the articles on your website at this very moment, and I really like your line of blogging. I added it to my favorites trap age list and disposition be checking promote soon. Will check into public notice my put as ok and vindicate me be acquainted with what you think. Thanks.
What are they selling?
Sometimes such nonsense has an "anonymous" signature that can be clicked on (which I never do), but surely - even if I did allow the comment to be published - no one would be idiot enough to click on the signature of such twaddle. And who's even going to see it when it's a comment on a blog post that I wrote 3 years ago?
If I was going to send out spam aimed at bringing people to my website, I think I could think up something better than a pathetic attempt like this one. And there are stacks of it, just as silly and futile. Boy, do some people follow poor business models.
And just for a real laugh, did any of you see this (via Making Light)?
About Me
- Glenda Larke
- Malaysia
- My life has been described by one of my editors as “impossibly exotic” – although really it is not my life, but me, that’s the exotic. I’m the uprooted plant, the exotic who doesn’t belong, always living in someone else’s backyard...
An Australian living in Malaysia. Writer, traveler, environmentalist. Author of The Isles of Glory trilogy (The Aware, Gilfeather, The Tainted); The Mirage Makers trilogy (Heart of the Mirage, The Shadow of Tyr, Song of the Shiver Barrens) and, writing as Glenda Noramly, a stand-alone book Havenstar. The latest trilogy is called The Watergivers in Australia and the Stormlord trilogy elsewhere: THE LAST STORMLORD, STORMLORD RISING, STORMLORD'S EXILE
Havenstar
You can buy my first published book (now out of print) as an eBook for your kindle, most ereaders, iPad etc.
CLICK ON THE COVER for the link to buy.
3 comments:
Well that's one way of earning a free vacation. I have seen some of this 'stuff' and I do agree with you, it is wierd
Glenda, this happens a lot on my friend's archaeology blog. Often people post comments to old entries, and they are spam, usually selling things or possibly directing you to their site so that they make money by advertising.
Love the shark killer but spam is a mystery.
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