A Note For Our New Spammers
It’s nice to get comments on our posts. We all like to hear from a happy audience, and like the funny stories and good information many of you provide.
We do not like our comments section being used to peddle crap. We also do not like comments that seem to be made mostly to get a link to your spammy, non-sex blog on here. Post that stuff on your friend’s blogs.
Your crap will be deleted, and you will be banned from commenting here. If we ever track down any of you joyless lusers, we’ll take our cattle prods, rope, and stinging nettles to you. Only — and we promise — you won’t come. And you will SO not like one bit of it.
Bacchus speaks: Having just logged in to find about fifteen new spams posted subsequent to Aphrodite’s mighty edit-and-delete-fest yesterday, I’ll have to say she’s way too nice about this. (Perhaps it’s the whole Love Goddess thing.) When I endorsed the strappado anti-spam measure proposed by Bondage Blog, it was in large part because Rope Guy found one of those disturbing early-1970s bondage photos where the model looks quite disgruntled. Which ain’t a patch on how “disgruntled” a spammer would look dangling from my meat hook.
The trouble is, ranting here about spam does very little good, because the highest volume and most inappropriate comment spam is crapped out by robots. The robot controllers literally can’t stop by to view their handiwork; there’s far too much of it. They never even know that their spams have been intercepted or deleted, which takes most of the satisfaction out of deleting the stuff.
High-volume automated spammers are what are termed “B2 Bandits” in The Basic Laws Of Human Stupidity — they are “stealing millions to make thousands”, like the meth-heads who wander down the street smashing $600 windshields to collect seventeen cents in sticky coins out of console cupholders.
OK, rant over. The defense against clone armies of evil-doing robots is not to heap deserved calumny on their shadowy overlord controllers; it’s to install trusted defense robots of one’s own, ever vigilant and undismayed by the ceaselessness and pointlessness of their task. It’s an ErosBlog priority, look for it by end of 1Q 2006 (with luck).
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Actually, the punishment sounds like tooo much fun. When can we meet?? :D BTW, it’s “losers”. :hehe:
Also, I love you’re site. Thanks!
I looooove comment spam…that is, I love rewriting spam-bot comments into surealistic poetry and rants on my website.
For example, on my recent kinky post on Naked Japanese girls
beating their taiko drums I had a great poke-her spam:
[ http://news.3ye...s/%5D
“Take your time to check some tex-ass hold em … party poke her rooms. My thoughts are a rou-lette slot-machine… Thanks!!! “
*twitch*
Let’s just pretend I spammed ya.
Punish me baby!
It seems your punishments are actually quite highly sought after here. No surprises. Just promise me you’ll take pictures of the torture and please, please post them. ;)
But without spam, penises would remain small and lifeless, a prescription would be needed for Viagra, and hundreds of ‘horny housewives’ would have their photos unlooked at!
Do I have to spam to get the cattle prods, rope, and stinging nettles? I promise I’ve been naughty in… other ways. ;)
Zick, you’re not enough of a computer geek. That’s where the word “luser” comes from. As Bacchus said better than I did, what we’re talking about would NOT be fun. Although some of the ideas you guys have would be!!
I don’t think Graymatter does comment moderating, so I’m betting that we’ll be finding better software soon.
Spammers getting spanked for their misdeeds? Now that’s a paysite I’d sign up to. ;)
Unrelated to that… do you have any idea what happened to Juicy Pair? I seem to recall getting the link to their blog from you, and thought you may know why they disappeared.
Aphrodite is correct — this blog software doesn’t allow any pre-filtering or moderation; all spam has to be deleted after-the-fact. Which is the biggest reason we’ll be going to WordPress one day soon.
Vixen, there’s a paysite I’d *run*, if I could be assured of a steady supply of spammers and a supportive legal jurisdiction.
Hmm, I wonder how they feel about spammers in Singapore?
Isn’t the spam blocked if you do that word verification thing? I’m seeing that everywhere lately.
Darlin, threating spankings for misdeeds is going to result in unintended consequences, LOL! Spammers who do not know the joy of the fire on one’s ass and thighs from a well given spanking will keep spamming and the rest of us will be spamming for fun to get spanked.
In any case, I’ve had to go to moderated comments because of the volume of spam and ridiculous commentary. I wouldn’t spank any of them.
I’m quite happy that blogspot now offers moderation for comments. I keep my comments on moderation status and this works very well for me. What I love is I can mass delete!
Hugs Des
With you on this one, Bacchus!
I`m into a bit of serious torture for spammers!
After resisting the `word verification` measures on my blog for a long time, I finally got fed up having to delete between 10-15 robot spam comments a day, and relented.
The word verification does the trick and blocks most of them, but occasionally one still manages to get through.
I don`t moderate the comments on my site in any other way than the word verification thing which stops things like price lists for peoples products, I like the idea of a variety of comments!
Serious torture for spammers might not stop them, but at least we`d have some fun doing it!!!!
Glad to hear your moving to wordpress Bacchus. I am just starting to use the brand new wordpress 2.0 on a new site and it is great. When you make the move I highly suggest you use the spam karma 2 plug-in. It works wonders. It is only on a rare day that a spammer gets through and that is only when it is done by hand. The bots get zapped everytime.