Every morning, I, like most bloggers, face spam comments that I generally delete without thinking twice. Today, however, I awoke to this:
Note to vegetarians: My food poops in your food. Enjoy that salad!
It was posted by someone promoting slot games. I’m not seeing the connection, but I admire his or her creativity. (My apologies to my vegetarian friends.) Finally, a little chuckle among the offers of Filippino wives and cheap tramadol.
Most spam is clearly written by people for whom English is a second language, like the spammer who, under a blog about health care reform, promised:
This subject and your post on this theme very intriguing, I am quite pleased to read the review during this page as well as make this insights regarding my understanding grew and I am certain other readers trust me. And also this time well then , i’ll continue for getting other subjects. Thanks.
I am intrigued by the ability to make your German Shepherd look like a shark before — oh the irony! — he bites you for sticking him in this ridiculous outfit, i’ll continue for getting other subjects. Thanks.
Even more amusing (or maddening) are the spam comments over at my other site, ParentingWithCancer.com, such as this one under a piece about donating hair for wigs for cancer patients:
Looks Pleasant. You must be very good! kidney failure diet
And the one posted under a heartwrenching personal blog about hoping to be here long enough to watch my kids grow up:
does anyone know a single thing about natural swimming ponds? I was pondering making a pool renovation and so wondered whether it would be a big ordeal.
Because when you’re facing a life and death situation, there’s always time to ponder a pool.
So to the spammers who write in Russian or Chinese, the ones promoting sheds, mail order pain killers, loads of traffic, discount gold chains and Uggs boots, the ones barely in English, I say, study this one, posted by someone promoting online poker:
Build a man a fire and he is warm for each day. Set him on fire, and he is warm for that rest of his life.
Something to think about. Thanks for stopping by.
Yes, I get a ton of them and Askimet generally catches them. But something about that sentence caught my eye, and cracked me up. Free fodder!
I think they are mostly cut/paste spam or done with an automated script. They aren’t real, just someone trying to get links. You must get thousands of those no? I get thousands and my site is not as well-known as yours.
When I first read the title of this post, I thought it was a typo… a very bad typo! But obviously now I see where you were going with that one. Very clever!
Spam filters like Akismet catch most of the garbage, but not all. It is still necessary to filter out the obvious spam from the thoughtful comments.
OMG, as my daughter would say. Yes, I had some spam comments on one of my blog posts about life after the stillbirth of my son, like this (sorry, I just HAD to be pedantic and go find the specific comments…I’m anal like that):
“Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now. Keep it up!
And according to this article, I totally agree with your opinion, but only this time! :)”
And this one:
“It was rather interesting for me to read that blog. Thank you for it. I like such themes and everything connected to them. I definitely want to read more on that blog soon.”
Yep, I love to read me some blogs about dead babies. Sigh.