That’s right it’s another post about the wide world of spam. Now, I know what you’re thinking; man, he must be completely out of any new ideas at all if he’s going to this well again spam is such a complex topic that I’m certain he has something fresh to say about it.
Back in July, last year, I noted that we felt we had achieved a major goal when we hit the 1000 spam mark. Little did I know how much we would take off in the time since then. Just a couple of days ago (okay I’ve been procrastinating battling the weasel flu, it’s been almost two weeks) we surpassed 50 000 spam comments.
I have to hand it to the spammers out there, they are definitely getting more creative. Some of them take quotes right out of the post, some of them steal our Beer Buddies’ names to try and slip the spam in that way and some of them are even going so far as to steal our Beer Buddies comments and try to pass them off as their own. That last one I’ve noticed on two separate occasions (coincidentally both times it was a comment by Steve-The Trade Show Guru that got stolen, and his title has been stolen a few times as well [congratulations Steve the spammers like you, they really like you]). Unfortunately, sometimes when moderating the comments I’m a bit hung-over from too many Blue Beaver Beers tired from working so hard, so I may have let some thieves slip by thinking that they were being witty all on their own.
There has been one unfortunate side effect from all of these spam related shenanigans (spananigans?) Sometimes people will leave what seems to be a legitimate clever/witty comment but when I click on the link back to their site it will be in some foreign language. Now I don’t want to seem prejudiced and I’m sorry that I can’t read Esperanto but I just don’t know what your web-site is saying. It could be inciting everyone to spread total anarchy throughout the world by leaving cupboard doors ajar. I simply cannot condone such behavior.
