Comment spam getting smarter 2
So I’ve got some spam that is being submitted through AJAX (I have non-Ajax comments turned off) and slipping through akimset. One could think maybe it’s being hand-crafted, because it sometimes makes sense on a tech blog, but it isn’t pertinent to the actual specific article. I guess they know use a database of tech comments, maybe scraped off from existing comments, and apply them willy nilly on blogs that cover these topics, while setting the url field for the name to their spammy site? Why don’t I think it’s hand-crafted?
If LogoMaid made your logo, you are supporting trademark theft and copyright violation has a comment “why it’s always writing NULL in empty fields?” and I forgot how much I really hate shell scripting has “Predicted values in template editing can be done through any PHP script?”. So they sorta make sense, just not as comments on these articles, or even on any of mine I can think of. Database of techy comments for use in spam?
Articles via rss or email
Maybe ‘Web 3.0’ is really just smarter spammers?
Heh, maybe. I read an article joking about how the next step would be spammers posting insightful and on-topic comments that you might as well approve, and then eventually the whole blogosphere becoming automated by spammers posting articles and discussing them.