Revenge of the diet pill
I do believe spam has reached a new level of annoyance.
At some point yesterday, a comment was posted to an older entry on this journal of mine. A totally inane, generically antagonistic comment that I will quote here:
here is a free tip:
if you don’t know what you are talking about don’t post online.
I’m sorry I don’t buy what you said but it’s to[sic] cheap.
I might’ve taken this comment a little more, uh, seriously, if it had not been left on the entry ‘Cause everybody’s doing it where I simply announce my decision to have the Recent Comments feature in my sidebar, displaying in what entries the seven most recent comments were made and by whom.
I’ve seen this type of thing before on other blogs; randomly placed hostile comments that have nothing to do with the post topic nor even the blog in question in a general sense. I always just assumed it was some yahoo trying to start an argument—or whatever—as I’m pretty sure I had seen the same exact comment on a few different journals, on the same day.
And I would’ve simply dismissed this as the same—if the user name given wasn’t “phentermine” and the non-existent url listed with the comment didn’t contain the word phentermine twice. I’m sure if I tried to contact the poster at the email given (a yahoo.com account, naturally) I’d immediately be put on a mailing list and then be solicited about a drug that would stimulate my hypothalamus gland in order to reduce my appetite. As that gland also controls my autonomic nervous system and body temperature, I think I’ll pass.
But, really, if you are going to barrage various blogs with a randomly placed comment, you ought get the right spelling of “too” in there.
What a sexy title you’re wearing. Mmm-mm!
If there were real human brains behind those Spambots, they would have guessed long ago that it would be totally unefficient to stalk intelligent, well-designed, blogs not afraid of lengthy, articulated, posts and comments.
What annoys me to the core is that all Portland-based blogs recently affected by those mercantile aggressions (Alas, Blargblog, Long story, short pier), also happen to be my favourite online daily reads.
P.S.: please don’t mind the Yahoo address.
I don’t think it’s only Portland-based; Patrick Nielsen Hayden’s Electrolite just got tagged by “Lolita.” I think some spambot’s trolling a lefty blog list. –Can somebody shunt it off to Little Green Footballs or something?
Can somebody shunt it off to Little Green Footballs or something?
Funny, I was thinking of a similar punchline for an aborted comment to Alas, a blog (in reaction to yet another “message” by “Tramadol”).
By the way, that for sure is not the first time I say it, but I feel deeply grateful to Scott McCloud for letting me know about Jenn’s Dicebox, Kip’s and Barry’s respective blogs, all in one take (actually, by that time, there was no Alas, only Amptoons, i. e. the weekly poltoon followed by Amp’s comments and thoughts. For a bunch of reasons, this has had quite a deep influence on my (Sino)-Greeko-French life. Not trying to flatter, just aknowledging the facts, live and direct from Paris, Absurdistan (sorry, I’m on ADF right now).
…grateful to Scott McCloud for letting me know about Jenn’s Dicebox, Kip’s and Barry’s respective blogs..
Which explains why you read all of our respective blogs. I always find the trackback of the internet interesting–thanks! That Scott…
I hope it’s all been a good influence. well, besides for Kevin, that can’t be helped.
And, yeah, I have no idea what the spam-bots are trying to accomplish. Piss people off? Encouage people to turn off their comments option? Yeesh.
Got 2 more Lolitas showing up in ‘Cause everybody’s doing it” by the way. I forgot to block that IP. And as intriguing as a threesome of Lolita’s might be, I decided to delete the redundancies.