Recently, Tim brought something disturbing to my attention. It seems that The Redneck is being frequently visited by spam-bots. At first I didn’t see the problem with this because I thought spam-bots were just the machines that work in the factory that produces that wonderfully tasty luncheon meat. Then I found out that these particular ‘bots were the ones that produce that other kind of spam (or what I like to call tofu) the kind that no one in the whole blog-o-verse enjoys.
Most of the time these annoying little bastards just leave comments about how great amoxicillin is. Lately, though, they seem to be getting a little smarter. They are leaving what seem like legitimate comments like, “This is very good advice. Thank-you.” This way if I’m not paying close attention I think that they really did read the post and I will approve the comment. As if that’s not bad enough, these robotic douche-bags are trying to usurp the identities of our Beer Buddies. I’ve ran across comments that are supposedly written by; Canucklehead, Trade Show Display, Hari, Tammy, Absolutely True and Jean-Luc Picard. I even found one that used Tim’s name, plus there are several by Harvey Bilchick, who is not actually a real person at all. However, if I click on the back-link to their site, it becomes readily obvious that these “people” are not who they say they are. They’re trying to trick me; but, like the saying goes, “I may have fallen off the beer and turnip wagon at night, but it wasn’t last night.” I wise to you. Now for any of our Beer Buddies who haven’t had their identities stolen all I can say is, just be patient I’m sure it will happen for you soon enough.
Unfortunately, I’m not really sure how to get rid of these damn, dirty tofu-bots. If anyone has any suggestions, I’m all ears (which makes my face look really funny). I will do my very best to weed out these impostors and continue to fight the good fight. But first, it’s time for a nutrition break. I’m having spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam and spam.
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