Each day I receive dozens of spam e-mails in the form of comments to posts at Anecdotal Evidence. Some are written in languages and alphabets I cannot read. Few conform to any grammar I recognize. Many consist of nothing but URLs. Some hawk pharmaceuticals and pornography. Often they read like Language Poetry. Tuesday evening I was removing the accumulated trash and inadvertently deleted a number of recent legitimate comments. It was nothing personal and I regret the error.
Suggestion: Consider ditching Blogger's comment system, and install Intense Debate comments instead. It's more spam resistant, among its other advantages.
ReplyDeleteI get these, too. I'm tempted to post some of them.
ReplyDeleteLike when they say, "You have a great site -- where do you get your info?" -- and the source of the "info" is clearly credited in the post.
Or one that keeps surfacing to reassure me, "You have a right to your own opinion, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise" -- as if I needed the reinforcement. In any case, this comment is often appended to posts where absolutely no opinion is expressed.
This spam stuff must work for whatever its intended purpose is -- otherwise it wouldn't be coming at me by the bucket-load everyday. But I wonder ... is anyone stupid enough to mistake these for real posts?
If so, I know someone who is the brother of the deposed King of Nigeria who wants to borrow $100 so he can send his inheritance to your bank account...