Trev's Travels » Blogging http://trevorcreech.com Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:14:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Ego-Damaging Spam Comment http://trevorcreech.com/blog/2006/04/15/ego-damaging-spam-comment/ http://trevorcreech.com/blog/2006/04/15/ego-damaging-spam-comment/#comments Sat, 15 Apr 2006 11:49:54 +0000 Trevor http://trevorcreech.com/blog/2006/04/15/ego-damaging-spam-comment/ 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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I mostly used what I found on this page: http://www.maclean-design.com/xanga_import.htm, with a few modifications, and it worked great!
So, if you ever need to export xanga entries, to import into another blog, let me know, and I might be able to help.

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