A lot of the spam comments I get on my blog start off with something like “That’s a very good point”, or “You have a very helpful site”, to try and trick me into letting these pride-building remarks through. However, the truth is shown when you look at their name, which links to great-web-hosting, cheap-linoleum-floors, and the like.
Well, yesterday, I encountered a different technique. A nice fellow named Max left the following comment on a recent post of mine:
Please, work with design colors. I have red eyes from your colors!
Ouch! I was sent reeling into a puddle of self-pity. Ok, not quite, but it did injure my ego a bit!
I can take criticism, however, so I was about to free the comment from it’s moderation queue prison. It was not caught by Akismet, my comment-spam blocker.
As my mouse flew towards the “Approve” button, my eyes caught an important, yet previously overlooked detail. Max’s ‘homepage’, was in fact, a very spammy url.
With my lighting-fast reflexes I changed my cursor’s course, and sent the comment spiralling into the abyss of caught spam.
Foiled again, spammer!
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Drama king.
Get over yourself.
Wow! Some spammers are pretty smart, eh? But none of them can be over-looked by…. du du du! TREVER CREECH!!!! YAHOO!!!!!
PLEASE DON’T SPAM MY COMMENT!!!
j/k If you don’t like “ego-lifting” comments then you can spam it.. 
Tsk, tsk, Spammers are not nice.
Hi Trevor,
I’ve noticed that you’re skilled in technological things. Perhaps you’d be interested in helping in a few different areas around Emmanuel if you’re still planning on going there. I wont be there as I am graduating on Saturday, but you should consider a few places to help out:
Assistant Editor of the Paper (there are aspirations to eventually get it off of blogger and onto it’s own domain and server)
A/V Crew (always fun to help out with chapels doing sound or projection)
If living in Rez, Community Builder (one of the roles of community builder is to create a rez-website… didn’t quite fly this year, but with someone who’s knowledgeable, it could be really cool)
EBC’s a good school. I enjoyed my time there. Hope you’re looking forward to it.
Tim
haha thats awesome! … you’re so funny… I have yet to do that 7 things thing…. haha. ttyl Trev. see you tomorrow perhaps.
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I can’t imagine being critical is the best way to get a stealthy spam comment through. If someone posted that on my blog my first reaction would be to go to their homepage and see how nitpicky I could be, but then again they’d gain a clickthrough from that and so maybe it’s the point…
Difficult one.
nice! i’m gonna make my own blog
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